Type of primary terma | Positive resultsb | Non reasonable resultsc | Articles per gened |
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Symbol | 10,045 | 20 | 198 |
Expanded | 12,028 | 140 | 817 |
Filtered | 11,910 | 22 | 451 |
- aThe Medline search was conducted using three searching strategies: Symbol refers to a search in which each gene was represented by its official symbol; Expanded refers to searches in which each gene was represented by the gene symbol, all its synonyms and the official gene product name; Filtered refers to searches in which non informative names were filtered out of the expanded list.
- bNumber of queries that returned at least one result.
- cNumber of queries that returned more than 33,000 results. We used 33,000 as a rough estimate of non reasonable results based on the fact that some of the most investigated genes, like p53, appear in less than 33,000 abstracts.
- dThe average number of abstracts per gene counting only genes that appeared at least once and did not appear in more than 33,000 abstracts.