A tough heaped-up scar that rises quite abruptly above the rest of the skin. It is irregularly shaped and tends to enlarge progressively. Keloids arise when there is too much collagen formed in the dermis during the repair of connective tissue. (BRENDA Tissue and Enzyme Source Ontology, BTO_0003669)
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1 genes associated with the trait Keloid in GWAS and other genetic association datasets from the dbGAP Gene-Trait Associations dataset.
