[Mutations in the COL4A5 collagen gene have been implicated as the primary defect in Alport syndrome, a heritable disorder characterized by sensorineural deafness and glomerulonephritis that progresses to end-stage renal failure.]. 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