“…For example, some papers suggest that replication of findings should be part of the publication [12,13,16,17,23,26,34,36] whereas others consider this suggestion unnecessary or even unreasonable [21,[40][41][42][43][44]. In many publications, the guidance has focused on genetic association studies of specific diseases [14,15,17,19,22,23,25,26,[31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]or the design and conduct of genetic association studies [13][14][15]17,19,20,22,23,25,[30][31][32]35,36] rather than on the quality of the reporting.…”