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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for otitis externa

Otitis externa [DOID:9463]

An external ear disease that involves inflammation of the outer ear and ear canal. It can be caused by active bacterial or fungal infections.

Synonyms:  otitis externa,  DOID:9463,  otitis externas,  swimmer's ear,  swimmers ear

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.