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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for carotid body cancer

Carotid body cancer [DOID:8731]

A vascular cancer that is characterized by an encapsulated, firm round mass at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery.

Synonyms:  carotid body cancer,  carotid body cancers,  DOID:8731,  malignant Carotid body Paraganglioma,  malignant carotid body tumor ...

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.