description: 'The material on this page will be removed in a future release. This content is deprecated and SHOULD NOT be used. Implementers are instead directed to the ([Genomics Reporting Implementation Guide](http://hl7.org/fhir/uv/genomics-reporting/index.html)) for guidance. A region (or regions) that includes all of the sequence elements necessary to encode a functional transcript. A gene may include regulatory regions, transcribed regions and/or other functional sequence regions ([SO:0000704](http://www.sequenceontology.org/browser/current_svn/term/SO:0000704)). This element is the official gene symbol approved by the HGNC, which is a short abbreviated form of the gene name ([HGNC](http://www.genenames.org)). LOINC Code: ([48018-6](http://loinc.org/48018-6)).' package_name: rs/hl7.fhir.r4b.core derivation: constraint name: DNARegionName type: Extension elements: extension: {index: 0} url: pattern: {type: uri, value: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsDNARegionName'} type: uri index: 1 value: choices: [valueString] index: 3 valueString: {type: string, choiceOf: value, index: 4} package_version: 4.3.0 extensions: {} class: extension kind: complex-type url: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/observation-geneticsDNARegionName base: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension version: 4.3.0 required: [value, valueString]