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.