[Subsequent sequencing of positional candidate genes identified loss-of-function mutations in the gene encoding progranulin (PGRN), a growth factor involved in multiple physiological processes such as cellular proliferation and survival and tissue repair, and pathological processes including tumorigenesis.]. 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