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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Literature associating WHSC1 and laryngeal benign neoplasm

WHSC1 [ENSP00000372351]

Multiple myeloma SET domain-containing protein; Histone methyltransferase with histone H3 'Lys-27' (H3K27me) methyltransferase activity. Isoform 2 may act as a transcription regulator that binds DNA and suppresses IL5 transcription through HDAC recruitment.

Synonyms:  WHSC1,  WHSC1p,  hWHSC1,  D6R9V2,  D6RFE7 ...

Linkouts:  STRING  Pharos  UniProt

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.