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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for primary amebic meningoencephalitis

Primary amebic meningoencephalitis [DOID:0050242]

A parasitic protozoa infectious disease that involves infection of the central nervous system caused by Naegleria fowleri. The symptoms include headache, nausea, rigidity of the neck muscles, vomiting, delirium, seizures and coma.

Synonyms:  primary amebic meningoencephalitis,  DOID:0050242,  primary amebic meningoencephalitises,  Naegleria fowleri infection,  Naegleria fowleri infections

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.