Table 1.
Trends in Numbers of Published Articles on Human Genome Epidemiology, Meta-Analyses, and Genome-Wide Association Studies and Numbers of Genes Studied, by Year, 2001–2008a
| Year | No. of Genesb | No. of Diseases | No. of Articles Published |
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| Total | GWAS | Meta-Analysesc | |||
| 2001 | 633 | 690 | 2,492 | 0 | 34 |
| 2002 | 794 | 855 | 3,196 | 0 | 45 |
| 2003 | 832 | 880 | 3,476 | 3 | 65 |
| 2004 | 1,124 | 1,021 | 4,280 | 0 | 86 |
| 2005 | 1,308 | 1,077 | 5,029 | 5 | 113 |
| 2006 | 1,502 | 1,109 | 5,364 | 12 | 155 |
| 2007 | 2,142 | 1,292 | 7,222 | 104 | 208 |
| 2008 | 3,336 | 1,203 | 7,659 | 134 | 206 |
Abbreviations: HuGE, Human Genome Epidemiology; GWAS, genome-wide association studies.
a
Data were obtained through a HuGE Navigator query (http://www.hugenavigator.net/) conducted on February 14, 2009.
b
Does not include the numbers of studied variants per gene, as such information is difficult to obtain. Individual genes were not counted unless they were featured in the paper.
c
Includes HuGE reviews.