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Human genes for Rothmund-Thomson syndrome

Rothmund-Thomson syndrome [DOID:2732]

A skin disease characterized by poikiloderma, congenital bone defects, and an increased risk of osteosarcoma in childhood and skin cancer later in life that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the DNA helicase gene RECQL4 on chromosome 8q24.

Synonyms:  Rothmund-Thomson syndrome,  DOID:2732,  RothmundThomson syndrome,  Rothmund-Thomson disease,  Rothmund-Thomson disorder ...

Linkouts:  OMIM #1 #2 #3

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.