User blog comment:Erockrule/Next Time On Young Justice "The Runaways"/@comment-99.35.51.48-20130128193628/@comment-1038387-20130128201348

The meta-gene sounds like the DC Comics version of the... meta-gene. It's not original for the show, it's based on the comics. It was introduced during the Invasion! arc, which was written during Greg's time at DC (and because Captain Atom played a large role in it, Greg probably knows this well.

And as for being named after a Marvel team... superhero comics have been going on for nigh 80 years. It's a fair guess that half the words in the dictionary have been used by one company or another for characters or teams.