DISEASES

Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for Keshan disease

Keshan disease [DOID:0050083]

A nutritional deficiency that is disease characterized by a cardiomyopathy secondary to selenium deficiency.

Synonyms:  Keshan disease,  DOID:0050083,  Keshan disorder,  Keshan syndrome,  Keshan diseases

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.