Table 1 Numbers of associations contained in different GWAS databases; statistics are over open-access papers

From: A machine-compiled database of genome-wide association studies

Database

Papers

Associations

Unique associations

GWAS Catalog

589

8384

>2026

GWAS Central

516

5914

>364

GWASkb (ours)

589

6231

>2777

  1. Unique associations are contained in one database and in none of the others. Human curated databases (GWAS Catalog and GWAS Central) significantly differ in their scope. Our machine-compiled repository (GWASkb) automatically recovers a large fraction of known results and also finds a comparable number of unique associations
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