Like the other MARCH and septin genes, care must be exercised when analyzing genetic data containing the MARCH6 gene in Microsoft Excel.[7] This is due to Excel's autocorrect feature treating the text "MARCH6" as a date and converting it to a standard date format. The original text cannot be recovered as a result of the conversion. A 2016 study found up to 19.6% of all papers in selected journals to be affected by the gene name error.[8] The issue can be prevented by using an alias name (such as MARCHF6), prepending with an apostrophe ('), or preformatting the cell as text.
