1). Monthly, an average of 22 (±8; range 4–41) members joined the network. Members originated from 70 countries, mainly from (North) America and Europe (Table 1). Half of the members came from three countries (USA, UK, and The Netherlands). The disproportionate high number of members for The Netherlands (85)—a

PU-H71 mw country with only 16 million MM-102 ic50 inhabitants—is explained by the existence since 2001 of a national association for community genetics and public health genomics. Low and middle-income countries are, not unexpectedly, underrepresented: fewer resources, fewer researchers, fewer publications, and less visibility of those qualifying for membership. Fig. 1 Evolution of membership of the Community Genetics Network. Recruitment started 3 months before publication of the first FG 4592 issue of the newsletter Table 2 Number of members by continent and country, August 2010 (countries with less than five members are grouped together) Continent Country Number Continent Country Number America   329 Asia   115   USA 237   India 21   Canada 68   Israel 19   Brazil 15   Iran 9   5 other countries 9   Saudi Arabia

6         Turkey 6 Europe   329   Japan 5   UK 103   Lebanon 5   Netherlands 85   Pakistan 5   Italy 23   17 other countries 39   Belgium 13         France 13 Australia/Pacific   65   Germany 12   Australia 61   Greece 11   1 other country 4   Norway 7         Portugal 7 Africa   20   Spain 7   South Africa 8   Sweden 7   7 other countries 12   Denmark 6         15 other countries 35       Miconazole References to papers by members Members were invited, originally, to send references to their recent papers (less than 3 months

old), in the community genetics domain, written in the English language, and listed in PubMed, to the then coordinator (LtK) of the network who included them with a hyperlink to PubMed in the upcoming newsletter. Clinical case reports were excluded from the beginning. Soon it became apparent that members were slow in reporting their papers. So, within a year, the ascertainment of references to papers of the members was done by a weekly search through PubMed on author’s name (family name and first initial). As different authors may have the same family name and first initial, the weekly results have to be checked by comparing the information on first name and affiliation in the paper and the network database. The number of references listed in the newsletter increased gradually (Fig. 2). Originally, the newsletter was published once a month, but given the continuous increase in the number of references, it was decided to publish the newsletter twice a month from issue 22, May 2009, onward (with the exception of the yearly holiday season). After 3 years, the number of cited references exceeded 90 papers a month. The increase in monthly number of references parallels the monthly increase in members.