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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for adenoiditis

Adenoiditis [DOID:0050145]

An upper respiratory tract disease which involves inflammation, pain, and swelling of the adenoid tissue due to the infection by bacteria and viruses. It occurs primarily in children and may be secondary to an allergy, infection of nose or throat and an obstruction of the eustachian tube. The infection has symptom pain, has symptom redness, has symptom swelling, and has symptom difficulty swallowing.

Synonyms:  adenoiditis,  adenoiditises,  DOID:0050145,  chronic adenoiditis,  chronic adenoiditises

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.