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)
“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)