Table 1.
Features of the national and ethnic mutation database (NEMDBs) generated for the European Commission-funded MEDGENET project.
| NEMDB | URL | Number of records | Search (+) option |
Year of first release |
References | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disease summaries | Populations/ethnicities | Search | Genetic laboratories | |||||
| Israeli | http://www.goldenhelix.org/israeli | 476 | 29 | 945 | 17 | Yes | 2006 | 5,6 |
| Cypriot* | http://www.goldenhelix.org/cypriot | 28 | 3 | 70 | - | Yes | 2005 | 7 |
| Tunisian | http://www.goldenhelix.org/tunisian | 102 | - | 165 | - | Yes | 2008 | This paper |
| Lebanese* | http://www.goldenhelix.org/lebanese | 89 | 2 | 130 | - | No | 2007 | 8 |
| Egyptian | http://www.goldenhelix.org/egyptian | 38 | - | 94 | - | No | 2008 | This paper |
*The Cypriot and Lebanese NEMDBs were first generated as national mutation frequency databases and have been subsequently upgraded into their current form.