[LKB1 encodes a serine/threonine protein kinase that is defective in patients with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), a hereditary disorder characterized by gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyposis and an increased risk of cancer development.]. 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