[on mutations in the fibrillin-1 gene in patients with skin fibrosis (stiff skin) adds a new piece of information on a connective tissue disorder that resembles systemic sclerosis, an autoimmune disease characterized by skin fibrosis and visceral organ involvement.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE