Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE The long term management from early childhood into young adolescence of severe alveolar proteinosis due to GMCSF receptor deficiency requires a dedicated specialized team to perform technically demanding whole lung lavages and cope with complications. 21849033 2011
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE The underlying molecular mechanisms causing deficiencies in GM-CSF signaling are as follows: 1) high levels of neutralizing GM-CSF autoantibodies observed in autoimmune PAP; 2) mutations in CSF2RA, the gene encoding the alpha chain of the GM-CSF receptor, observed in hereditary PAP; and 3) reduced numbers and function of alveolar macrophages as a result of other clinical diseases seen in secondary PAP. 20623372 2010
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Moreover, the expression of SLC7A7 is regulated by GM-CSF in monocytes, pointing to a role of y+LAT1 in the pathogenesis of LPI associated PAP. 21110863 2010
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Genetic mutations that disrupt GM-CSF receptor signaling comprise a rare form of hereditary PAP. 20338813 2010
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Examples include antigranulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) autoantibodies and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis; anti-interferon (IFN)-γ autoantibodies and disseminated nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM); anti-interleukin-(IL)-6 autoantibodies and severe staphylococcal skin infection; anti-IL-17A, anti-IL-17F, or anti-IL-22 autoantibodies in patients with mucocutaneous candidiasis in the setting of both the autoimmune polyendocrinopathy, candidiasis, ectodermal dystrophy (APECED) syndrome and in cases of thymoma. 20966748 2010
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Five were children with PAP and increased serum GM-CSF but without GM-CSF autoantibodies or any disease causing secondary PAP; all were studied with family members, subsequently identified patients, and controls. 20622029 2010
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE We have shown that activin A, a cytokine implicated in regulating B-cell proliferation, is severely deficient in alveolar macrophages from patients with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP), an autoimmune disorder characterized by surfactant accumulation and neutralizing autoantibodies to granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor. 18803071 2009
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Because the phenotypic and immunologic abnormalities of PAP in mouse models can be corrected by GM-CSF reconstituting therapies, early clinical trials are underway utilizing administration of GM-CSF to potentially treat human PAP. 19666756 2009
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease MGD Circulating Ly-6C+ myeloid precursors migrate to the CNS and play a pathogenic role during autoimmune demyelinating disease. 19196868 2009
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Most cases of PAP are associated with the formation of autoantibodies against the cytokine granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), which is required for normal surfactant homeostasis and lung function. 19015311 2008
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Primary pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare syndrome characterized by accumulation of surfactant in the lungs that is presumed to be mediated by disruption of granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) signaling based on studies in genetically modified mice. 18955570 2008
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE The importance of granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) in the pathogenesis of PAP has been confirmed in humans and mice, wherein GM-CSF signaling is required for pulmonary alveolar macrophage catabolism of surfactant. 18955567 2008
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results suggest that ABCG1 deficiency in PAP and GM-CSF KO alveolar macrophages is attributable to the absence of a GM-CSF-mediated PPARgamma pathway. 17848583 2007
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Elevated gelatinase activity in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis: role of macrophage-colony stimulating factor. 16275889 2006
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is an autoimmune disorder characterized by neutralizing autoantibodies to granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF). 16337108 2006
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease LHGDN High-affinity autoantibodies specifically eliminate granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor activity in the lungs of patients with idiopathic pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. 14512323 2004
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease LHGDN Elevated IL-10 inhibits GM-CSF synthesis in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. 14567558 2003
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Elevated IL-10 inhibits GM-CSF synthesis in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. 14567558 2003
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In vitro studies demonstrate that exogenous GMCSF treatment upregulated PU.1 and M-CSFR gene expression in PAP alveolar macrophages. 12896880 2003
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE In pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP), a rare interstitial lung disease, surfactant accumulates in alveolar airspaces, resident macrophages become engorged with lipoproteinaceous material, and GM-CSF deficiency is strongly implicated in pathogenesis. 12805087 2003
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE A point mutation of the GM-CSF cDNA may contribute to the decreased GM-CSF production in our adult PAP patient. 11930665 2002
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease MGD Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor-deficient mice have impaired resistance to blood-stage malaria. 11119498 2001
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease MGD Characterization of ovarian function in granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor-deficient mice. 10684813 2000
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The BAL from PAP patients had less detectable GM-CSF by ELISA than healthy controls (P = 0.05); in contrast, the inhibitory cytokine, interleukin-10 (IL-10), was increased in PAP compared to controls (P = 0.04). 10779401 2000
CUI: C0034050
Disease: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
0.300 Biomarker disease BEFREE Four adult patients with proven PAP were analysed for GM-CSF and GM-CSF-beta c receptor in regard to protein level, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression and sequence composition. 10706504 2000