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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for primary spontaneous pneumothorax

Primary spontaneous pneumothorax [DOID:0080218]

A pneumothorax that is characterized by an abnormal accumulation of air in the space between the lungs and the chest cavity that can result in the partial or complete collapse of a lung.

Synonyms:  primary spontaneous pneumothorax,  DOID:0080218,  primary spontaneous pneumothoraxes

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.