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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet. 2010 Sep 22;11:383–425. doi: 10.1146/annurev-genom-082509-141811

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Figure 4

Newspaper stories and policy report references to genetic conditions, genes, and related controversies. References to gene patents in English language newspapers and policy reports, according to gene or to company. Caulfield and colleagues (38) searched English language media in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States for the period 1994--2006 for stories about gene patents. (a) The number of newspaper articles that mentioned specific conditions, genes, or controversies was counted. (b) In another article, Caulfield and colleagues (39) searched for explicit references to specific gene patents and firms in English language policy reports that addressed gene patenting from 2002--2006. Shown are the number of times specific patents and firms were mentioned in those reports (excluding irrelevant or synonymous uses of terms). The number of references in policy reports to Myriad Genetics and BRCA1/2 are combined here but were reported separately in the two Caulfield et al. publications (38, 39); references in policy reports to various muscular dystrophies were also reported separately but combined here. Data from References 38 and 39 used with permission.