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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for Miyoshi muscular dystrophy

Miyoshi muscular dystrophy [DOID:0070198]

A distal muscular dystrophy characterized by autosomal recessive inheritance of distal muscle weakness in the upper and lower limbs that spares the intrinsic muscles of the hands and has onset in young adulthood.

Synonyms:  Miyoshi muscular dystrophy,  DOID:0070198,  Miyoshi muscular dystrophies,  Miyoshi myopathy,  Miyoshi myopathies

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.