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Disease-gene associations mined from literature

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Human genes for black piedra

Black piedra [DOID:12711]

A superficial mycosis that is a superficial fungal infection of the hair shaft caused by Piedraia hortae, an ascomycetous fungus forming hard black nodules on the shafts of the scalp, beard, moustache and pubic hair.

Synonyms:  black piedra,  DOID:12711,  black piedras

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.