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)
“I am often attracted to people with whom I could not hold a five minute conversation.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)
“They say the tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)