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Human genes for Sandhoff disease

Sandhoff disease [DOID:3323]

A GM2 gangliosidosis that is characterized by an accumulation of GM2 gangliosides, particularly in neurons, and that has_material_basis_in mutation in the beta subunit of hexosaminidase (HEXB) on chromosome 5q13.

Synonyms:  Sandhoff disease,  DOID:3323,  Sandhoff disorder,  Sandhoff syndrome,  Sandhoff diseases ...

Linkouts:  OMIM

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.