The characteristics of early-stage research into human genes are substantially different from subsequent research.

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We find an overall trend (gray dots) suggesting that the number of research publications reporting on novel gene targets scales with the number of research publications studying old gene targets (Spearman: 0.49, S7 Fig ).

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