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Human genes for cholesteatoma of external ear

Cholesteatoma of external ear [DOID:9462]

A cholesteatoma which involves invasion of the squamous tissue into a localized area of bony erosion of the ear canal. It may develop spontaneously or as a consequence of infection, trauma or surgery.

Synonyms:  cholesteatoma of external ear,  DOID:9462,  cholesteatoma of external ears,  external canal cholesteatoma,  external canal cholesteatomas

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.

Currently maintained by Qingyao Huang at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.