"Far East" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A geographic area of east and southeast Asia encompassing CHINA; HONG KONG; JAPAN; KOREA; MACAO; MONGOLIA; and TAIWAN.
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Far East".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Far East".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Far East" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Far East" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2015 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2020 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Far East" by people in Profiles.
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Proteogenomics of Non-smoking Lung Cancer in East Asia Delineates Molecular Signatures of Pathogenesis and Progression. Cell. 2020 07 09; 182(1):226-244.e17.
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Localizing Components of Shared Transethnic Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits from GWAS Summary Data. Am J Hum Genet. 2020 06 04; 106(6):805-817.
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Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals. Nature. 2020 06; 582(7811):240-245.
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Prevalence and number of children living in institutional care: global, regional, and country estimates. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2020 05; 4(5):370-377.
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Contrasting Epidemiology and Clinicopathology of Female Breast Cancer in Asians vs the US Population. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2019 12 01; 111(12):1298-1306.
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Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations. Nat Genet. 2019 12; 51(12):1670-1678.
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Association of Birth Weight With Type 2 Diabetes and Glycemic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Study. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 09 04; 2(9):e1910915.
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Prevalence and causes of vision loss in East Asia in 2015: magnitude, temporal trends and projections. Br J Ophthalmol. 2020 05; 104(5):616-622.
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Involuntary smoking and the risk of head and neck cancer in an East Asian population. Cancer Epidemiol. 2019 04; 59:173-177.
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Tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, betel quid chewing, and the risk of head and neck cancer in an East Asian population. Head Neck. 2019 01; 41(1):92-102.