The case for locus-specific databases.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Genetic Diversity and Mutation Frequency Databases in Ethnic Populations: Systematic Review.JMIR bioinformatics and biotechnology · 2025
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2. Settling the score: variant prioritization and Mendelian disease.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2017
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3. Hybrid curation of gene-mutation relations combining automated extraction and crowdsourcing.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2014
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4. Defining the disease liability of variants in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene.Nature genetics · 2013
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5. Management of incidental findings in clinical genomic sequencing.Current protocols in human genetics · 2013
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6. How genetic variant libraries effectively extend gene testing patents: implications for intellectual property and good clinical care.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2012
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7. Consensus: a framework for evaluation of uncertain gene variants in laboratory test reporting.Genome medicine · 2012
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8. Reporting of Genetic Variants by Diagnostic Laboratories and other Centres.The Clinical biochemist. Reviews · 2012
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9. Mutation (variation) databases and registries: a rationale for coordination of efforts.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2011
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10. Mutations in the pre-replication complex cause Meier-Gorlin syndrome.Nature genetics · 2011
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Corrections and comments

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  Mutation (variation) databases and registries: a rationale for coordination of efforts.2011

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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