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Human genes for large congenital melanocytic nevus

Large congenital melanocytic nevus [DOID:0111359]

A skin disease characterized by the presence at birth of a pigmented skin lesion composed of melanocytes of more than 20 cm in projected adult diameter that has_material_basis_in somatic mutation in NRAS on chromosome 11p15.5.

Synonyms:  large congenital melanocytic nevus,  DOID:0111359,  large congenital melanocytic nevuses,  large congenital melanocytic nevi,  Congenital pigmented nevus ...

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.