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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for oral mucosa leukoplakia

Oral mucosa leukoplakia [DOID:9655]

A mouth disease that is characterized by a white patch or plaque that develops in the oral cavity and is strongly associated with smoking.

Synonyms:  oral mucosa leukoplakia,  DOID:9655,  oral mucosa leukoplakias

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.