1. Identify the variant for your search.
   LitVar recognizes many different variant formats, such as T1799A, V600E, Leu160His, and rs1801272
2. Enter a variant name in the search box
3. Press enter

Disambiguation engine

The variant entered in the search box is searched by a disambiguation engine for its normalized form. For example, if you enter “V600E” in the search box, LitVar will translate this search to the HGVS form “p.V600E” and find rs113488022 in our database record.

Alternative hits

If a variant name can be mapped to multiple records, we return articles for one variant with all other matching variants shown as alternatives. Variants are ranked based on the number of publications in which they appear.

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If you would like to report a match that does not seem accurate for your search query, please e-mail the information to us.

LitVar displays 15 publications per page with the most recent publications shown first.

When examining returned publications, you can find pre-annotated biological concepts (displayed in color) as well as concepts matching the query (displayed with a colored background). Each color corresponds to a different biological concept: variant, gene, disease, or chemical.

Ranked biological concepts

Concept filters show genes, diseases, chemicals, and variants that are the most commonly co-occur with the query variant in the same sentence.

Add biological concepts to search

You can click on these concepts to narrow down search results. In that case, only publications containing all the selected concepts (including user submitted variant and selected concepts) will be returned.

Publication-level filters show the top journals in which matching publications were published, as well as the types of these publications, and the number of publications in the last year, last 2 years and last 5 years. You can filter your results by selecting a journal, publication date or publication types.

You can download the PMIDs of the publications matching your query, as well as following the publications about the searched variant by subscribing its RSS feed.