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by XorNot 1520 days ago
There's actually a sort of general principle in medical science that people should avoid whimsical names for things, since in all likelihood someone with a life-altering or fatal condition or their family shouldn't be told that it's due to a mutation in the Sonic Hedgehog protein [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog