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Literature associating PIEZO2 and scoliosis

PIEZO2 [ENSP00000421377]

Piezo-type mechanosensitive ion channel component 2; Component of a mechanosensitive channel required for rapidly adapting mechanically activated (MA) currents. Required for Merkel-cell mechanotransduction. Plays a major role in light-touch mechanosensation.

Synonyms:  PIEZO2,  PIEZO2p,  hPIEZO2,  A0A2R8Y3N5,  A0A2R8YG64 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt

The disease-gene associations are derived from automatic text mining of the biomedical literature, manually curated database annotations, cancer mutation data, and genome-wide association studies. The confidence of each association is signified by stars, where ★★★★★ is the highest confidence and ★☆☆☆☆ is the lowest.

Developed by Sune Frankild, Alexander Junge, Albert Pallejà, Dhouha Grissa, Kalliopi Tsafou, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.