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 |
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.