[Recent studies have shown that 1) PHOX2B is the main disease-causing gene for congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, an autosomal dominant disorder with incomplete penetrance; 2) PHOX2B is the first gene for which germline mutations have been demonstrated to predispose to neuroblastoma; and 3) Hirschsprung disease was associated with an intronic single-nucleotide polymorphism of the PHOX2B gene in a case-control study.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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