[Mutations in the StAR gene were found to be the cause of the potentially lethal disease in humans known as congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia (lipoid CAH), a condition characterized by an almost complete inability of the newborn to synthesize steroids.]. 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