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Human genes for byssinosis

Byssinosis [DOID:10323]

A pneumoconiosis that is characterized by hypersensitive reaction to inhaled dust during the initial processing of cotton, flax, or hemp, and has symptoms of chest tightness, cough and wheezing.

Synonyms:  byssinosis,  byssinosises,  DOID:10323,  cotton mill fever,  Flax-dressers' disease ...

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.