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Human genes for Machado-Joseph disease

Machado-Joseph disease [DOID:1440]

An autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia that is characterized by slow degeneration of the hindbrain and has_material_basis_in expansion of CAG triplet repeats (glutamine) in the ATXN3 gene.

Synonyms:  Machado-Joseph disease,  DOID:1440,  MachadoJoseph disease,  Machado-Joseph disorder,  Machado-Joseph syndrome ...

Linkouts:  OMIM

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.