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Summary

The example disease causes the example syndrome.

Phenotype

Phenotypic description of the disease.

(Describe this in your own words, avoid plagiarism. Summarise the information from different sources.)

Cross-references

See also description of this disease in

• specific link to Wikipedia
• specific link to HGMD
• specific link to OMIM

... (see databases in "resources")

Biochemical disease mechanism

The example protein is involved in the example pathway...

Ideally, include a graphical pathway representation like this one:

Sphingolipid Metabolism (source: KEGG) highlighting disease associated enzymes

(see above: own words, no plagiarism)

Cross-references

• link to KEGG
• link to MetaCyc

... see databases in "resources"

Mutations

Current knowledge about mutations associated with the disease. - Separate into disease causing and neutral mutations.

Reference sequence

Which sequence does not cause the disease and is most often found in the population.

• Create a page for the reference sequence. -- These sequence pages will be the starting point for collecting prediction results and result discussions.

Neutral mutations

• Create one page per mutated sequence.

Disease causing mutations

• Create one page per mutated sequence.