# Gene Status?

**URL:** <https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/gene-status/4479>\
**Category:** WormBase\
**Created:** [January 7, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/gene-status/4479 "2013-01-07T16:34:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![bradtmoore](https://community.alliancegenome.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@bradtmoore](https://community.alliancegenome.org/u/bradtmoore)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/gene-status/4479/1 "2013-01-07T16:34:50Z")

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What does the Gene Status field mean (e.g. live, dead, suppressed)? This field appears in the filter list in BioMart for a Gene dataset in the W220 database.

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**Author:** ![mh6](https://community.alliancegenome.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@mh6](https://community.alliancegenome.org/u/mh6)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/gene-status/4479/2 "2013-01-24T15:19:28Z")

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We generally keep all genes ever used by WormBase in the database, even if they are later cloned or decided to be not a gene at all.  
Therefore genes can have a live or dead status (dead meaning these genes were decided to be wrong for some reason, which should be on their respective gene pages).

The “suppressed” status is a bit special and represents people submitting their data on genes to WormBase, but asking us to suppress that information until a later point in time.

I guess WormMart just slurped in all possible status and put them into dropdown menu.

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**Author:** ![bradtmoore](https://community.alliancegenome.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@bradtmoore](https://community.alliancegenome.org/u/bradtmoore)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.alliancegenome.org/t/gene-status/4479/3 "2013-01-24T15:26:25Z")

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Makes total sense. Thanks!