Hi Peng,

We are aware of the push for naming conventions in the mouse community. 
A couple of the reasons you will find many, many genes that don't adhere 
to this rule in mm9.kgXref are:

- Many of these are probably names of genes first characterized in human 
so they inherit that name.
- Many of them are license plate named genes (e.g. AK0006899), which 
don't fit the convention at all.

We're building mm10 known genes right now and will be making tweaks to 
eliminate some of these aberrations, but we're not in charge of naming, 
we just assign names that the community uses.

Please let us know if you have any additional questions: [email protected]

-
Greg Roe
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


On 5/13/12 11:50 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see that SASH1 appears in mm9 kgXref. According to mouse gene naming
> convention, a symbol should consists a upper case letter for the first
> letter and all lower case letters for the remaining letters. So I
> suspect that this is an error. Could USCS staff check where this
> symbol is originated and fix the problem? Thanks!
>
> uc007eiu.1^INM_175155^IP59808^ISASH1_MOUSE^ISash1^INM_175155^INP_780364^ISAM
> and SH3 domain-containing protein 1
> uc007eiv.1^IAK049453^I^I^ISASH1^I^I^IMus musculus mRNA for putative
> adapter and scaffold protein (SASH1 gene).
>
>
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