CTD's disease vocabulary is a modified subset of descriptors from the “Diseases” category of the the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®), combined with genetic disorders from the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database. MeSH is a hierarchical vocabulary used to index articles for MEDLINE®/PubMed®.[1] OMIM contains textual information, references related to diseases, links to MEDLINE and sequence records in the Entrez system, and links to additional related resources at NCBI. It is developed at the Johns Hopkins University and provided to the public by NCBI.
OMIM™ and Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man™ are trademarks of the Johns Hopkins University.
BasicsThe name of the disease.
Synonyms of the disease.
Unique identifier(s) assigned to the disease by MeSH and/or OMIM, and a link to the source record(s) for the disease.
The primary ID for the disease is bolded.
Explanatory comments added by a CTD curator.
If you arrived at this page from a query form, you may click the Use button to add this term to the Disease field on the query form.
HierarchiesEach disease occurs in at least one location of the vocabulary hierarchy; many occur in more than one. Each branch of the hierarchy is presented separately, with both its ancestor path and descendant tree shown.
Nodes are indented to indicate their relative level in the tree, and the number of related genes and chemicals
may help direct your interest.
A node marked by the
symbol
has additional descendants that are not displayed on the current page.
Click a term in the ancestor path to move up the tree, or click a descendant node to move down.
If you arrived at this page from a query form, you may click the Use button to add a disease node to the Disease field on the query form. Searching by node (rather than by the disease name) will yield only those items related to nodes in a particular tree.
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