Erratum

The publisher would like to draw the reader's attention to some errors in the following article:

Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Masafumi Ohtsubo, Shinsei Minoshima. MutationView/KMcancerDB: A database for cancer gene mutations. Cancer Science 2006; 98: 259–67.

In the following instances, MutationView/KMcancerDB, MutationView and KMcancerDB were printed in roman type and should have appeared in italic type, as MutationView/KMcancerDB, MutationView and KMcancerDB:

• • on page 259, in the last line of the abstract and in the last line of the introduction
• • on page 262, in the heading before the second paragraph, in the sub‐heading before the third paragraph, and in line 15 of the last paragraph
• • on page 264 in the first line of the first paragraph, in the first, fifth and sixth lines of the second paragraph, and in the first and second lines of the third paragraph

On page 259, in the seventh line of the abstract, the sentence should have read:

DNA/protein diagnosis

not DNA protein diagnosis as originally published

On page 260, in Table 1:

Table 1.

Various cancer‐related databases

Database name	Gene	Internet address	Ref
Locus‐specific Database
Familial Adenomatous Polyposis at GeneDis	APC	http://life2.tau.ac.il/GeneDis/Tables/APC/apc.html
UMD Locus Specific Databases	APC, MEN1, VHL, others	http://www.umd.be/	4
ATbase – a registry of patients with ataxia‐telangiectasia	ATM	http://www.cnt.ki.se/ATbase
Ataxia‐Telangiectasia Mutation Database	ATM	http://www.benaroyaresearch.org/bri_investigators/atm.htm
Bloom Syndrome‐BLMbase	BLM	http://bioinf.uta.fi/BLMbase/index2.html	15
Breast Cancer Mutation Database	BRCA1, BRCA2	http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/bic/
CDKN2a Database Project (a human p16 database with annotation)	CDKN2A	http://biodesktop.uvm.edu/perl/p16
EGFR Mutation Database	EGFR	http://www.cityofhope.org/cmdl/egfr_db/index.html
Fanconi Anaemia Mutation Database	FANCA, FANCB, FANCC, FANCD1, FANCD2, FANCE, FANCF, FANCG, others	http://www.rockefeller.edu/fanconi/mutate/
LYSTbase: Mutation registry for Chediak‐Higashi syndrome	LYST	http://bioinf.uta.fi/LYSTbase/
MMR Databank	MLH1, MLH3, MSH2, MSH6, PMS1, PMS2	http://www.insight‐group.org/
Mismatch Repair Genes Variant Database	MLH1, MSH6, MSH6	http://www.med.mun.ca/mmrvariants/
NF1 International Mutation Databas	NF1	http://www.nfmutation.org/
NF2 International Mutation Database	NF2	http://www.nfmutation.org/
PTCH Mutation Database	PTCH	http://www.cybergene.se/cgi‐bin/w3‐msql/ptchbase/index.html
Retinoblastoma Genetics	RB1	http://www.verandi.de/joomla/	16
SH2D1Abase: Mutation registry for X‐linked lymphopreliferative syndrome (XLP)	SH2D1A	http://bioinf.uta.fi/SH2D1Abase/
IARC TP53 Mutation Database	TP53	http://www‐p53.iarc.fr/	3
p53 web site	TP53	http://p53.free.fr
Database of Germline p53 Mutations	TP53	http://www.lf2.cuni.cz/projects/germline_mut_p53.htm	17
p53 Mutation Database Analysis & Search	TP53	http://p53.genome.ad.jp/
TP53 mutation database (UMD LSDB)	TP53	http://www.umd.be:2072/	5
Human p53 database and software	TP53	http://sunsite.unc.edu/dnam/des_p53.htm	18
TSC Mutation Database	TSC1, TSC2	http://chromium.liacs.nl/lovd/index.php?select_db=TSC1	19
The Cardiff‐Rotterdam Tuberous sclerosis mutation database	TSC2	http://www.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/mg/tsc_db/
WASbase: Mutation registry for Wiskott‐Aldrich syndrome (WAS)	WAS	http://bioinf.uta.fi/WASbase/
Database of WS‐associated WRN mutations	WRN	http://www.pathology.washington.edu/werner/ws_wrn.html
GeneDis; Human Genetic Disease Database		http://life2.tau.ac.il/GeneDis/
MutationView	1 †	http://mutview.dmb.med.keio.ac.jp/	12,13
Databases specialized for cancers
COSMIC; Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer		http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/cosmic/	6
Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology		http://www.infobiogen.fr/services/chromcancer/	7
Cancer Genome Anatomy Project, CGAP		http://cgap.nci.nih.gov/	8
The Tumor Gene Database		http://condor.bcm.tmc.edu/ermb/tgdb/tgdb.html	9
Cancer Gene Expression Database, CGED		http://cged.hgc.jp/	20
Central Mutation Databases
Genome Database, GDB		http://www.gdb.org/	21
Genatlas		http://www.dsi.univ‐paris5.fr/genatlas/	22
GeneCards Database		http://www.genecards.org/index.shtml	23
Human Genome Variation database, HGVbase		http://hgvbase.cgb.ki.se/	24
Human Organised Whole Genome Database, HOWDY		http://howdy.jst.go.jp/	25
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, OMIM		http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM	10
Human Gene Mutation Database, HGMD		http://www.hgmd.cf.ac.uk/ac/index.php	11
Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledgebase, STACK		http://www.sanbi.ac.za/Dbases.html	26

^† 1) See Table 2 and 4 for the genes included in MutationView/KMcancerDB.

• • in line 41, ‘MutationView’ should have been indented, as it should be listed as a Locus‐specific Database
• • in line 42, ‘Databases specialized for cancers’ should be aligned to the left, as it is a heading to the five databases that are listed below it
• • in line 48, ‘Cancer Gene Expression Database’ should be indented, as it is a database specialized for cancers
• • in line 49, ‘Central Mutation Databases’ should be aligned to the left, as it is a heading to the eight databases that are listed below it

Please see the amended Table 1 below, for the correct format.

On page 261, in the 12th line of the paragraph headed ‘Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man’, the sentence should have read:

discovery/research history of the disease/gene and details of patient cases

not discovery‐research history of the disease‐gene and details of patient cases, as originally published

On page 262, in the 12th line of the paragraph headed ‘Access to genes’, part of the database name should have read:

cDNA

not CDNA as originally published.

On page 263, in the fourth line of the legend for Fig. 1, the legend for part (d) should have read:

organ/tissue names

not organ‐tissue names as originally published.

The publisher apologizes for these errors and any confusion they may have caused.