Genes That Have Attracted Media Attention
| HUGO Symbol | Locus | Gene product | Associated disease | Notes | Genecard |
| BRCA1 | 17q21 | Breast cancer 1, early onset | Breast cancer | Myriad Genetics owns a controversial patent on this gene | GeneCard for BRCA1 |
| BRCA2 | 13q12-13 | Breast cancer 2, early onset | Breast cancer | Myriad Genetics owns a controversial patent on this gene | GeneCard for BRCA2 |
| CD28 | 2q33 | CD28 antigen | -- | The target of the drug TGN1412, which had a dramatic outcome of its first clinical trial in 2006. | GeneCard for CD28 |
| ZBTB7A | 19p13.3 | Zbtb7 / POK erythroid myeloid ontogenic factor | Cancer | Originally called POKemon, the gene was renamed after legal threats from Pokémon USA . | GeneCard for ZBTB7A |
Read more about this topic: List Of Human Genes
Famous quotes containing the words genes, attracted, media and/or attention:
“Whether you want it or not,
your genes have a political past,
your skin a political tone.
your eyes a political color.
...
you walk with political steps
on political ground.”
—Wislawa Szymborska (b. 1923)
“One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non- existence, one’s inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.”
—Emile Durkheim (1858–1917)
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people’s attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)