Potentially offensive names to be scrubbed from human genetics.

“How would you feel if you were telling a patient they had lunatic fringe mutation?” asks Sue Povey, who chairs the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Gene Nomenclature Committee. It’s a rhetorical question: the answer is that no one should have to make such an announcement. And Povey’s committee is renaming a number of genes that have potentially offensive or embarrassing names so that in the future no one will.

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