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Human genes for piebaldism

Piebaldism [DOID:3263]

An integumentary system disease characterized by congenital absence of melanocytes in areas of the skin and hair that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in either KIT or SNAI2 on chromosome 4q12 or 8q11.21, respectively.

Synonyms:  piebaldism,  DOID:3263,  piebaldisms,  Partial albinism,  PIEBALD TRAIT ...

Linkouts:  OMIM #1 #2

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.