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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for endemic goiter

Endemic goiter [DOID:13198]

A nutritional deficiency disease characterized by noncancerous enlargement of the thyroid gland and has_material_basis_in iodine deficiency.

Synonyms:  endemic goiter,  DOID:13198,  endemic goiters,  Iodine-deficiency-related endemic goitre,  simple goitre ...

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.