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Human genes for ocular albinism 1

Ocular albinism 1 [DOID:0050633]

An eye disease that is characterized by reduced pigmentation of the iris and the resulting impairment of visual acuity without significantly affecting the color of skin or hair and has_material_basis_in mutation in the GPR143 gene that encodes segments of the melanosomes that stores melanin.

Synonyms:  ocular albinism 1,  DOID:0050633,  Albinism ocular 1,  ocular albinism,  ocular albinisms

Linkouts:  OMIM

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.