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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for thelaziasis

Thelaziasis [DOID:0050261]

A parasitic helminthiasis infectious diseasea that involves infection of the eyes in humans by nematode Thelazia callipaeda causing varying degrees of inflammation and lacrimation. In heavier infections, photophobia, edema, conjunctivitis, and blindness occurs.

Synonyms:  thelaziasis,  DOID:0050261,  thelaziasises

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.