Some Funny Names of Genes

Sonic hedgehog, head case, faint sausage, lunatic fringe, tribbles, groucho, smurf, sex lethal, death-executioner Bcl-2, one-eyed pinhead, fear of intimacy, Swiss cheese, Prospero and Miranda (from Shakespeare's 'Tempest'), and mothers against decapentaplegia are all names that scientists have given to human genes.


(Sonic Hedgehog homolog)

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