What to do when Suggested.Symbol returns multiple items?

[paraish]

This is not so much a bug as a question of approach - when Suggested.Symbol returns multiple entries, what is your approach to "choosing" a symbol? For example, here's what I got for one of my runs (using human genes): U6 FALSE NA /// RNU6-1 /// RNU6-50P

I also chose this example specifically because one of the suggested options is "NA", which I thought was funny.

Thanks in advance!

[lwaldron]

how did you produce that output? I’m curious about the NA myself because I don’t expect to see it. But in general the only way to resolve ambiguous cases is through additional information, such as if you happen to know which chromosome the reported gene was on, you can feed that into HGNChelper. Or maybe there was a supplement that provided Entrez IDs or some other more stable ID. Otherwise I think you just leave it for what it is, that it could be any of those genes.