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. 2018 Oct 8;3:e17. doi: 10.1017/gheg.2018.14

Table 1.

PubMed listed publications and percentage of papers with an African connectiona

Genomics GWAS Pharmacogenomics
Publication date Total Africa % Africa Total Africa % Africa Total Africa % Africa
1998–2002 8279 29 0.35 86 1 1.16 1837 15 0.82
2003–2007 28 432 166 0.58 643 8 1.24 4417 26 0.59
2008–2012 48 979 359 0.73 12 189 109 0.89 5881 56 0.95
2013–2017 90 421 1682 1.86 18 883 314 1.66 8123 160 1.97
Total 176 111 2236 1.27 31 801 432 1.36 20 258 257 1.27
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Method: PubMed search with the terms ‘genomics’; ‘Africa genomics’; ‘GWAS’; ‘Africa GWAS’; ‘pharmacogenomics’; and ‘Africa pharmacogenomics’. Five-year period year/01/01 to year/12/31.