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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for sensory system disease

Sensory system disease [DOID:0050155]

A nervous system disease which is located in a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information that consists of sensory receptors, neural pathways, and parts of the brain involved in sensory perception. Commonly recognized sensory systems are those for vision, hearing, somatic sensation (touch), taste and olfaction (smell).

Synonyms:  sensory system disease,  DOID:0050155,  sensory system disorder,  sensory system syndrome,  sensory system diseases

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.