[Congenital alveolar proteinosis (CAP) is an often fatal cause of respiratory failure in term newborn infants, which has been associated with a genetic deficiency of surfactant protein B (SP-B) as a result of a frameshift mutation (121ins2) in a family with three affected siblings.]. 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