Hi Margaret,

We released a new UCSC Genes set a couple of weeks ago (see: 
http://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/newsarch.html#020212), and the naming 
issue with MYC has been corrected.

Thank you for your bug report.  It was helped us improve the 
transcript-naming part of our UCSC Genes pipeline.

--
Brooke Rhead
UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group


On 2/4/11 2:26 PM, Brooke Rhead wrote:
> Hello Margaret,
>
> It looks like you have detected a bug in the UCSC Genes pipeline. The
> bug has been documented, and we will look at the issue and incorporate a
> fix into the next UCSC Genes build.
>
> Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention!
>
> --
> Brooke Rhead
> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>
>
> On 02/03/11 18:33, Brooke Rhead wrote:
>> Hi Margaret,
>>
>> Our mailing list software strips attachments, so I never saw your
>> screen shot. But I see what you are saying. This UCSC Genes track
>> shows MYC in hg19, but everywhere else (previous assemblies and other
>> tracks in hg19, like RefSeq) the same transcripts are labeled PVT1.
>>
>> I have asked one of the engineers here who works on UCSC Genes what
>> might be going on in this case. I'll let you know what she says.
>>
>> --
>> Brooke Rhead
>> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>>
>>
>> On 02/03/11 07:45, [email protected] wrote:
>>> If you search for "MYC" in the HG browser/gateway, the first 3 hits
>> listed in Hg19 are transcripts of what was labeled PVT1 in Hg18 & all
>> earlier versions. This matches the gene labels for UCSC & RefSeq tracks
>> in Hg19, as shown in the screen shot attached to my original query. What
>> is the status of PVT1? Last I heard it wasn't MYC.
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Margaret Leversha, PhD
>>> MSKCC
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Brooke Rhead [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday,
>>> February 03, 2011 12:21 AM
>>> To: Leversha, Margaret A./Sloan-Kettering Institute
>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: [Genome] PVT1 now displays as MYC
>>>
>>> Hi Margaret,
>>>
>>> Which track are you referring to? Is it UCSC Genes / Known Genes?
>>>
>>> I'm looking in these regions:
>>>
>>> hg17: chr8:128,569,240-129,489,402
>>> hg18: chr8:128,569,240-129,489,402
>>> hg19: chr8:128,500,058-129,420,220
>>>
>>> For hg17, PVT1 is not annotated at all in the Known Genes track (on
>>> hg17, only protein-coding genes were annotated).
>>>
>>> I do see that what was called PVT1 in the hg18 UCSC Genes track is
>>> called MYC in hg19. I don't have an immediate explanation for that,
>>> but I could ask the developers of the UCSC Genes track. Is that what
>>> you are referring to?
>>>
>>> Please reply to [email protected] and let us know which track, and
>>> we can try to give you more information.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Brooke Rhead
>>> UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/31/11 15:17, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Is there a reason for the name switch for PVT1 (adjacent to MYC in
>>> 8q24) in earlier builds to MYC in Hg17?
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Margaret Leversha, PhD
>>>> MSKCC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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