Vitamin A Deficiency
About the Disease
Keratomalacia, also known as vitamin a deficiency, is related to leber congenital amaurosis 2 and xerophthalmia, and has symptoms including other specified visual disturbances, photophobia and amaurosis fugax. An important gene associated with Keratomalacia is RBP4 (Retinol Binding Protein 4), and among its related pathways/superpathways are Metabolism and Metabolism of water-soluble vitamins and cofactors. The drugs BCG vaccine and Prednisolone phosphate have been mentioned in the context of this disorder. Affiliated tissues include liver, eye and bone, and related phenotypes are Increased shRNA abundance (Z-score > 2) and Increased shRNA abundance (Z-score > 2)
Common Targets / Biomarkers
G5950 | G53630
Other Diseases
Vitamin B12 Deficiency | Vitamin D Deficiency | Vitamin K Deficiency | Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy | Vitiligo | Vitreoretinal Degeneration, Snowflake Type | Vitreoretinopathy, Proliferative | Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome | Von Hippel-Lindau Disease | Von Willebrand Disease | Vulvovaginitis | Waardenburg Syndrome | Waardenburg Syndrome Type 1 | Waardenburg Syndrome Type 2 | Waardenburg Syndrome Type 2A | Waardenburg Syndrome Type 2E | Waardenburg Syndrome Type 4 | Waardenburg Syndrome Type 4A | Wagner Disease | WAGR Syndrome | Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia | Walker-Warburg Syndrome | Warsaw Breakage Syndrome | Weill-Marchesani Syndrome | Werner's Syndrome | Whipple's Disease | Wieacker-Wolff Syndrome | Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome | Williams Syndrome | Wilson's Disease | Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome | Withdrawal Syndrome | Wolcott-Rallison Syndrome | Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome | Wolfram Syndrome | Wolfram Syndrome 2 | Wolman Disease | Woodhouse-Sakati Syndrome | X-linked Acrogigantism | X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease | X-linked Creatine Transporter Deficiency | X-linked Myotubular Myopathy | X-linked Sideroblastic Anemia | Xeroderma Pigmentosum | Xeroderma Pigmentosum Variant Type | Yellow Fever | Zellweger Syndrome | Zimmermann-Laband Syndrome | Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome | Zygomycosis
