List of unusual biological names | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 04/05/2019

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00:00:57 1 Genes and proteins
00:01:20 2 Molecules
00:01:39 3 Species
00:02:31 4 Techniques
00:02:52 5 See also



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The trouble with unusual names have not been lost on scientists when needing to explain genetic diseases to lay-people. This has particularly been noted in patients with a defect in the sonic hedgehog gene pathway and the disease formerly named CATCH22 for "cardiac anomaly, T-cell deficit, clefting and hypocalcaemia for chromosome 22q11.2 microdeletions". This name was abandoned due to the no-win connotations.In 1993, a researcher at the University of Cambridge was ordered to change the name of the gene he had discovered, VELCRO, because of copyright issues with Velcro. The gene was re-named to puckered. In 2005, Pokémon threatened to sue the discoverer of POKEMON because the name was attracting attention when its link to the development of cancer was published.