AFP, alpha fetoprotein, 174

N. diseases: 392; N. variants: 9
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Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Significant predictors for HCC were identified using multiple Cox regression analysis in study cohort: treatment age ≥60 years (hazard ratio [HR]: 2.04, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.3-3.7), pretreatment bilirubin ≥1.1 mg/dL (HR: 1.99, 95% CI = 1.08-3.67), α-fetoprotein ≥7.9 ng/mL (HR: 2.44, 95% CI = 1.16-5.32), no sustained virological response (SVR; HR: 1.91, 95% CI = 1.05-3.45), and baseline cirrhosis (HR: 4.45, 95% CI = 2.07-9.73). 31800346 2020
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In discrimination early-stage HCC from severe fibrosis/cirrhosis (F3 + F4) patients, both miR-23b-3p (AUC: 0.796, 95%CI: 0.703-0.889; sensitivity: 85.11%, specificity: 65.00%) and miR-331-3p (AUC:0.832, 95%CI: 0.812-0.953; sensitivity: 75.00%, specificity: 85.11%) had better diagnostic performances than AFP (AUC:0.632, 95%CI: 0.512-0.753; sensitivity: 50.00%, specificity: 55.32%). 31053500 2020
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In multiple regression analysis, <i>RASSF1A</i> and <i>E-Cadherin</i> were predictors of HCC within cirrhosis cases, but only <i>E-Cadherin</i> was an independent risk factor for prediction of HCC in cases with low AFP (<i>P</i> = 0.01).<b>Conclusions</b>: The presence of hypermethylated serum <i>RASSF1A, E-Cadherin</i> and <i>RUNX3</i> is linked to HCC in patients with HCV-related cirrhosis. 31790342 2020
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Finally, we confirmed that the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC = 0.944) for the combination of AFP and VTN increased more so than for a single glycopeptide (AUC = 0.889 for AFP and 0.792 for VTN) with respect to discriminating between HCC and cirrhosis serum. 31076819 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Subgroup analysis of CR achievement illuminated that DEB-TACE+RFA disclosed better CR achievement in patients with history of cirrhosis (P <.001), tumor located in right liver (P = .003), bilobar disease (P = .013), tumor size <3.3 cm (P = .001), no portal vein invasion (P = .001), no hepatic vein invasion (P <.001), Child-pugh stage A (P <.001), Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) stage 0, A-B (P <.001), abnormal alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) (P = .001) and normal AFP (P = .016). 31261491 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE On multivariate analysis, baseline AFP > 5.5 was associated with the presence of cirrhosis (P =0.001), coexisting non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) (P = 0.035), and GT 1 (P = 0.029). 31655955 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE When samples were grouped according to the serum level of AKR1B10 (≥232.7pg/ml), serum AKR1B10 positively correlated to serum AFP (χ<sup>2</sup>=6.295, P=0.012), ALT (χ<sup>2</sup>=18.803, P=0.000), AST (χ<sup>2</sup>=33.421, P=0.000), tumor nodule number (χ<sup>2</sup>=6.777, P=0.009), cirrhosis (χ<sup>2</sup>=43.458, P=0.000), and tumor size (χ<sup>2</sup>=6.042, P=0.014) in the Chi-square test. 31495535 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Among the patients who developed HCC, non-SVR patients had significantly higher total bilirubin, higher FIB-4, lower pre-treatment platelet count, higher pre-treatment AFP levels and higher proportion of cirrhosis than SVR patients before occurrence of HCC. 30527565 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Liver fibrosis (cirrhosis; P = 0.0005), age (≥ 49 years; P = 0.0048), platelet count (≤ 115 × 10/mm<sup>3</sup> ; P = 0.0007), α-fetoprotein (≥ 8.0 ng/mL; P = 0.030), type IV collagen (≥ 200 ng/mL; P = 0.043), fibrosis-4 index (≥ 4.14; P = 0.0006), and human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DQA1/DRB1-SNP (AA genotype; P = 0.0092) were significantly associated with HCC development according to the log-rank test. 30160782 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to determine the role of AFP in HCC surveillance among patients with cirrhosis.<b>Methods:</b> The study population consisted of 392 patients with cirrhosis. 31593481 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Especially, plasma circSMARCA5 presented a high accuracy (AUC = 0.847, 0.706) for detecting HCC with serum AFP below 200 ng/ml from those hepatitis and cirrhosis with AFP below 200 ng/ml. 30716279 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These tests enable an algorithm which could improve the performance of the standard surveillance protocol recommended (imaging with or without AFP), limited to patients with cirrhosis. 30569507 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The panel distinguished HCC from cirrhosis and normal controls, with an area under the receiver operating curve (AUC) of 0.82; this was significantly better than that of AFP (AUC: 0.75). 31590436 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Additionally, subgroup analysis showed that high THBS4 levels were only associated with poor overall survival for alpha-fetoprotein >40 ng/mL (P = 0.028) and cirrhosis (P = 0.002). 30802535 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this pilot study, we assessed serum microRNA (miRNA) expression to distinguish cirrhosis and HCC, alone and in combination with the aminotransferase-to-platelet ratio (APRI), Fibrosis 4 (FIB-4), and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP). 30781550 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Subgroup analyses showed that a positive ΔCTC was associated with lower survival and higher recurrence among patients with low alpha-fetoprotein levels and cirrhosis (all p < 0.05). 31691073 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This multicenter study evaluated the Milan, Hangzhou, and AFP model-based criteria for prediction of early recurrence of HCC in patients with cirrhosis who had undergone LT. MATERIAL AND METHODS From the China Liver Transplant Registry (CLTR) database, we analyzed data of 589 HCC patients who had undergone LT between Jan 2015 and Jan 2019. 31427563 2019
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Lack of reduction in serum alpha-fetoprotein during treatment with direct antiviral agents predicts hepatocellular carcinoma development in a large cohort of patients with hepatitis C virus-related cirrhosis. 30112854 2018
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The WFA<sup>+</sup> -M2BP marker was superior to AFP in differentiating early-stage HCC (BCLC stages 0 and A) from cirrhosis with AUROC of 0.80 (95% CI, 0.68-0.91; P < 0.001) and 0.73 (95% CI, 0.60-0.86; P = 0.002), respectively. 29732647 2018
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This panel had a higher diagnostic performance than did α-fetoprotein (AFP) in differentiating HCC from a high-risk population of cirrhosis, such as an area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve of 0.930, 0.892, and 0.807 for the panel versus 0.657, 0.725, and 0.650 for AFP in the discovery set, test set, and cohort 1 of the validation set, respectively. 28960374 2018
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The area under the curve (AUC) of LysoPC [18:2 (9Z,12Z)], LysoPC (P-16:0), asparaginyl-proline and vaccenic acid in the comparison between HCC and cirrhosis were all increased compared with that of AFP, indicating a more improved diagnosis ability. 29399157 2018
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Surveillance Imaging and Alpha Fetoprotein for Early Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Meta-analysis. 29425931 2018
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition, elevated NLR was associated with the presence of tumor vascular invasion (OR 2.35; 95% CI 1.93-2.86), multiple tumors (OR 1.38; 95% CI 1.15-1.66), alpha-fetoprotein ≥ 400 ng/mL (OR 1.51; 95% CI 1.15-1.98), presence of HbsAg (+) (OR 0.68; 95% CI 0.51-0.90), and cirrhosis (OR: 0.59; 95% CI 0.44-0.80). 29112283 2018
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Compared with 164 non-HCC SVR patients, 22 who developed HCC were older at SVR (P = 0.032), had a higher incidence of diabetes (P = 0.013) and higher pre-antiviral treatment alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels (P = 0.016), more had fibrosis stage 3 and cirrhosis (P = 0.0009) and hepatitis B core antibody (anti-HBc) positivity (P = 0.006). 29889353 2018
CUI: C1623038
Disease: Cirrhosis
Cirrhosis
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Aim of this work: To determine the numbers of Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in peripheral blood and ascitic fluid in cirrhosis and HCC and their relation to IFN-γ and α-fetoprotein (α-FP). 29182438 2018