DISEASES

Disease-gene associations mined from literature

Human genes for congenital diarrhea 5 with tufting enteropathy

Congenital diarrhea 5 with tufting enteropathy [DOID:0060776]

A congenital diarrhea characterized by intractable diarrhea of infancy with villous atrophy, absence of inflammation, and intestinal epithelial cell dysplasia manifesting as focal epithelial tufts in the duodenum and jejunum that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the EPCAM gene on chromosome 2p21.

Synonyms:  congenital diarrhea 5 with tufting enteropathy,  DOID:0060776,  congenital diarrhoea 5 with tufting enteropathy,  congenital familial intractable diarrhea with epithelial or epithelium abnormalities,  congenital familial intractable diarrhoea with epithelial or epithelium abnormalities ...