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. 2001 Jan 1;29(1):327–328. doi: 10.1093/nar/29.1.327

Table 1. Mutation data in the KMDB/MutationView.

Category
Number of diseases
Number of genes
Number of mutation entries
Number of literature references compiled
Eye 24 23a 385 112
Heart 7 7 79 19
Ear 3 11a 49 21
Brain/nerve 10 11a 227 77
Cancer-related 8 8 1303 164
Syndrome 15 17a 855 159
Autoimmunity 2 2 96 13
Muscle 3 3 42 15
Blood 4 4 13 7
Miscellaneous 11 11 43 19
Total 87 97 3092 606

aThe number of diseases does not necessarily match with the number of genes because it has been known that some diseases with different clinical symptoms are caused by different mutation types in the same gene and other diseases with a common clinical phenotype are caused by multiple different genes involved in a certain physiological pathway.