English: "(A) Number of first descriptions of rare diseases per year. (B) Number of publications identifying new disease description (orange bars) and new gene-disease links per year (blue bars). The black dots indicate the (rolling) median number of years the diseases had been known before the causative gene was identified in that year. The data are displayed from the year 1984, from which there were constantly more than four genes per year discovered. (C) Total current citation counts for the papers shown for gene-disease relationship papers shown as blue bars in panel B shown for the year these were published. One dot represents one publication from our dataset."