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Attribution (credit) display examples

  1. How to cite the use of the TogoVar database

    Please cite the following article.
    Mitsuhashi N, Toyo-Oka L, Katayama T, Kawashima M, Kawashima S, Miyazaki K, Takagi T. TogoVar: A comprehensive Japanese genetic variation database. Hum Genome Var. 2022 Dec 12;9(1):44. doi: 10.1038/s41439-022-00222-9. PMID: 36509753; PMCID: PMC9744889.

  2. How to cite data (content) that has been imported into the TogoVar database

    You must cite these contents in the methods specified below, according to the content used. Formally, refer to the terms of use for each content.
    ClinVar [Terms of use: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/docs/maintenance_use/]
    Landrum MJ, Chitipiralla S, Brown GR, et al. ClinVar: improvements to accessing data. Nucleic Acids Res. 2020;48(D1):D835-D844. doi:10.1093/nar/gkz972 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz972
    Colil [Terms of use: http://colil.dbcls.jp/portal/index_en.html]
    T. Fujiwara and Y. Yamamoto, "Colil: a database and search service for citation contexts in the life sciences domain.", Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 6:38 (19 October 2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13326-015-0037-x
    GEM Japan Whole Genome Aggregation (GEM-J WGA) [Terms of use: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/gem_j_wga]
    "GEM Japan Whole Genome Aggregation (GEM-J WGA) Panel". Japan:GEnome Medical alliance Japan Project (GEM-J). Available from: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/gem_j_wga.
    gnomAD [Terms of use: https://gnomad.broadinstitute.org/about]
    Karczewski, K.J., Francioli, L.C., Tiao, G. et al. The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans. Nature 581, 434–443 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2308-7
    GWAS Catalog [Terms of use: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/docs/about]
    Sollis E, Mosaku A, Abid A, et al. The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023;51(D1):D977-D985. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac1010
    HGNC [Terms of use: https://www.genenames.org/about/license/]
    Seal RL, Braschi B, Gray K, et al. Genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2023. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023;51(D1):D1003-D1009. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac888
    HGVD Release Version 2.30 (2017/08/02) [Terms of use: http://www.hgvd.genome.med.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about.html]
    K. Higasa et al. "Human genetic variation database, a reference database of genetic variations in the Japanese population" J Hum Genet 61:547-553, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1038/jhg.2016.12
    JGA-SNP dataset [Terms of use: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/jga_snp]
    Variant set aggregated from NGS data in the NBDC Human Database/JGA [Internet]. Chiba: Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and System (Japan); [2018] - . JGA-SNP dataset; [cited YYYY Mmm DD]. Available from: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/jga_snp
    JGA-WES dataset [Terms of use: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/jga_wes]
    Variant set aggregated from NGS data in the NBDC Human Database/JGA [Internet]. Chiba: Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and System (Japan); [2018] - . JGA-WES dataset; [cited YYYY Mmm DD]. Available from: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/jga_wes
    JGA-WGS dataset [Terms of use: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/jga_wgs]
    Variant set aggregated from NGS data in the NBDC Human Database/JGA [Internet]. Chiba: Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and System (Japan); [2018] - . JGA-WGS dataset; [cited YYYY Mmm DD]. Available from: https://togovar.org/doc/datasets/jga_wgs
    LitVar [Terms of use: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/]
    Allot A, Peng Y, Wei CH, Lee K, Phan L, Lu Z. LitVar: a semantic search engine for linking genomic variant data in PubMed and PMC. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018;46(W1):W530-W536. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky355
    MGeND [Terms of use: https://mgend.ncgm.go.jp/about#data-link]
    Mayumi Kamada, Masahiko Nakatsui, Ryosuke Kojima, Sachio Nohara, Eiichiro Uchino, Shigeki Tanishima, Masaya Sugiyama, Kenjiro Kosaki, Katsushi Tokunaga, Masashi Mizokami, Yasushi Okuno (2019) “MGeND: an integrated database for Japanese clinical and genomic information”, Human Genome Variation, 6, 53 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41439-019-0084-4
    PubTator Central [Terms of use: https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/lu/PubTatorCentral/README.txt]
    Wei CH, Allot A, Leaman R, Lu Z. PubTator central: automated concept annotation for biomedical full text articles. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jul 2;47(W1):W587-W593. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz389
    ToMMo 8.3KJPN Allele Frequency Panel (8.3KJPN) [Terms of use: https://jmorp.megabank.tohoku.ac.jp/help/conditions-of-use]
    Tadaka et al., "jMorp updates in 2020: large enhancement of multi-omics data resources on the general Japanese population", Nucleic Acids Research. 2021 Jan 8;49(D1):D536-D544. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa1034

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