Thanks to its good intention to share both materials and specimens of Chinese genetic

resources, China has allowed, as of December 2007, some 70,360 Chinese genetic

resources being shared. In 2007, a range of research findings achieved through sharing

Chinese genetic resources were published in international journals, or presented at

international meetings. For example, a paper on Chinese male prostate tissues miRNA125

and its male hormone regulation was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy

of Sciences, and a paper studying crystal protein mutation using family cataract

information reported its results in Human Mutation. In 2007, the sharing project has led to

the publication of 32 papers cited by SCI and 4 invention patents.