These slides show the growth of breast cancer gene submissions to a U.S. public genetic database in the year after the Supreme Court ended one company's monopoly on testing for these genes. The data deposition is part of a worldwide movement to "free the data" on the BRCA genes.

1. NCBI ClinVar and
BRCA data
6/10/2014
Data provided by George Riley, NCBI to Erika Check
Hayden, Reporter, Nature

2. All-gene submissions to ClinVar. Credit: George Riley, National Center for Biotechnology Information. Data
provided to Erika Check Hayden, Reporter, Nature

3. Submissions of BRCA genes to ClinVar.
Credit: George Riley, National Center for
Biotechnology Information. Data provided
to Erika Check Hayden, Reporter, Nature
*The dip from November through March
was caused by one submitter removing and
then resubmitting 4,000 variants.