[Three aspects are looked at: (i) the genetic base of Hirschsprung's disease, particularly its major susceptibility gene rearranged during transfection and its potential reference to achalasia; (ii) the altered motor functions in both conditions with loss of inhibitory innervation and interstitial cell pathology; and (iii) the involvement of these motility disorders in genetic syndromes.]. 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