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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for focal hand dystonia

Focal hand dystonia [DOID:0050841]

A focal dystonia that affects a single muscle or small group of muscles in the hand resulting from involuntary muscular contractions.

Synonyms:  focal hand dystonia,  DOID:0050841,  focal hand dystonias,  organic writer's cramp,  organic writers cramp

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.