CHIT1, chitinase 1, 1118

N. diseases: 142; N. variants: 8
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Chitotriosidase and human cartilage gp-39 (HC gp-39) are members of the chitinase family of proteins and are expressed in lipid-laden macrophages accumulated in various organs during Gaucher disease. 10073974 1999
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Chitotriosidase (CT) is a surrogate plasma marker for Gaucher disease. 17408605 2007
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Chitotriosidase variants in patients with Gaucher disease. Implications for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring. 24060732 2013
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Chitotriosidase, an enzyme secreted by activated macrophages, is widely used as a biomarker for therapeutic monitoring and patient follow-up in Gaucher disease (GD), a lysosomal disorder caused by an inherited deficiency of glucocerebrosidase. 28319420 2017
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Chitotriosidase showed specific elevations in symptomatic Gaucher disease, and was mildly elevated in all other lipid storage disorders. 29290526 2018
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Also, an elevated level of plasma Chitotriosidase activity in five patients supported their diagnosis of Gaucher disease. 30285649 2018
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE BMSi was correlated with chitotriosidase, the marker of GD activity. 28263001 2017
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Comparison between the biochemical properties of plasma chitotriosidase from normal individuals and from patients with Gaucher disease, GM1-gangliosidosis, Krabbe disease and heterozygotes for Gaucher disease. 17291472 2007
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Gaucher cells identified in his bone marrow and the highly elevated plasma chitotriosidase activity and glucosylsphingosine supported a diagnosis of Gaucher disease. 28457694 2018
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, plasma chitotriosidase and CCL18 may also serve as markers for the formation of pathological lipid-laden macrophages in type B NPD, in analogy to Gaucher disease. 15702402 2005
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In view of these findings of distinguishable fold elevation of chitotriosidase in Gaucher disease or Niemann Pick A/B, it can be a potential surrogate differential diagnostic marker for these groups of diseases, except in the patients in whom this enzyme is deficient. 26975750 2016
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Like the situation in Gaucher disease, lipids accumulate in macrophages of patients suffering from beta-thalassemia, and, in both conditions, increased chitotriosidase levels occur. 16137900 2006
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Low glucocerebrosidase and high chitotriosidase levels were indicative for GD. 29945135 2019
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE No correlation was found between TNF-alpha genotypes and chitotriosidase levels, a putative biochemical marker for Gaucher disease severity. 15919211 2005
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Of interest, this patient had decreased activity of leukocyte acid β-glucosidase activity and elevated serum chitotriosidase to levels often seen in GD. 20882348 2010
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Patients with GD had elevated chitotriosidase, serum TRACP-5b, and CCL-3 levels (P < 0.001). 25645321 2015
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Plasma chitotriosidase levels are elevated on average 1000-fold in symptomatic patients with Gaucher disease and reflect the body burden on storage cells. 15895711 2005
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Plasma chitotriosidase activity reflects the presence of lipid-laden macrophages in patients with Gaucher disease. 19725875 2009
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The biochemical investigation for the plasma chitotriosidase enzyme activity and β-Glucosidase enzyme activity confirmed the Gaucher disease. 30764785 2019
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The determination of chitotriosidase levels as a diagnosis complement in some lysosomal storage disorders and in enzyme replacement therapy follow-up of Gaucher disease patients is of great importance. 15528158 2005
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE There are two biomarkers used to assess the severity of GD - chitotriosidase has been measured for over 20 years, and deacylated GlcCer, known as glucosylsphingosine (GlcSph) is thought to be even more adequate, as it is almost a direct storage substrate. 29530534 2018
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To assess association between ChT genotype, and clinical/biochemical features of GD were performed CHIT1 genotyping for: c.1049_1072dup24, p.Gly102Ser, p.Gly354Arg, c.1155_1156 + 2delGAGT, c.1156 + 5_1156 + 8delGTAA, p.Ala442Val/Gly and the rearrangement delE/I-10. 30695688 2019
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE To our knowledge, beta-thalassemia is hitherto the only disorder in which an increase of plasma chitotriosidase, comparable to that seen in Gaucher disease, may occur. 10349508 1999
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Two patients with Gaucher disease (13.3%) had normal plasma chitotriosidase activity, and carried a homozygous 24 bp duplication of exon 10 of the CHIT1 gene. 24621582 2014
CUI: C0017205
Disease: Gaucher Disease
Gaucher Disease
0.400 Biomarker disease CTD_human Type 1 Gaucher disease: null and hypomorphic novel chitotriosidase mutations-implications for diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring. 17464953 2007