Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Two recent independent studies published in <i>Nature</i> show robust responses of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) cell lines, preclinical ccRCC xenograft models and, remarkably, a patient with progressive ccRCC despite receiving multiple lines of treatment, to the long-awaited, recently developed inhibitors of hypoxia-inducible factor 2-alpha (HIF2α). 28667082 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE HIF2A germline-mutation-induced polycythemia in a patient with VHL-associated renal-cell carcinoma. 29172931 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE PHGDH as a Key Enzyme for Serine Biosynthesis in HIF2α-Targeting Therapy for Renal Cell Carcinoma. 28951458 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In follow-up of a recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) that identified a locus in chromosome 2p21 associated with risk for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), we conducted a fine mapping analysis of a 120 kb region that includes EPAS1. 22113997 2012
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A subset of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) tumors exhibit a HIF1A gene mutation, yielding two ccRCC tumor types, H1H2 type expressing both HIF1α and HIF2α, and H2 type expressing HIF2α, but not functional HIF1α protein. 28092369 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our study confirmed sex-specific associations for two known RCC risk loci at 14q24.2 (DPF3) and 2p21(EPAS1). 31231134 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Two correlated variants (r² = 0.99 in controls), rs11894252 (P = 1.8 × 10⁻⁸) and rs7579899 (P = 2.3 × 10⁻⁹), map to EPAS1 on 2p21, which encodes hypoxia-inducible-factor-2 alpha, a transcription factor previously implicated in RCC. 21131975 2011
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The authors observed evidence of interactions between PhIP and RCC susceptibility variants in 2 genes: inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor, type 2 (ITPR2) (rs718314; multiplicative P for interaction = .03 and additive P for interaction =.002) and endothelial PAS domain-containing protein 1 (EPAS1) (rs7579899; additive P for interaction =.06). 26551148 2016
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease CTD_human Two correlated variants (r² = 0.99 in controls), rs11894252 (P = 1.8 × 10⁻⁸) and rs7579899 (P = 2.3 × 10⁻⁹), map to EPAS1 on 2p21, which encodes hypoxia-inducible-factor-2 alpha, a transcription factor previously implicated in RCC. 21131975 2011
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We demonstrate that functional delivery of a HIF2α-specific RNAi trigger resulted in HIF2α gene silencing and subsequent tumor growth inhibition and degeneration in an established orthotopic ccRCC xenograft model.<i></i>. 29079709 2018
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In kidney cancer, HIF-2α is believed to be the most important driver for development and progression of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), highlighting the therapeutic potential of HIF-2 antagonists in this disease. 28217462 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The hypoxia-inducible factors HIF1α and HIF2α play a crucial role in ccRCC initiation and progression. 27507852 2016
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE EPAS1 was detected in all of the RCC cell lines examined. 11301389 2001
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Mutation analysis of hypoxia-inducible factors HIF1A and HIF2A in renal cell carcinoma. 20032376 2009
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings also suggest that MTHFD2 and HIF-2α form a positive feedforward loop in RCC, promoting metabolic reprograming and tumor growth. 31289360 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We demonstrate that HIF2α promotes lipid storage, ER homeostasis, and cell viability in ccRCC via upregulation of the LD coat protein PLIN2, revealing a novel function for the well-documented "clear-cell" phenotype and identifying ER stress as a targetable vulnerability created by HIF2α/PLIN2 suppression in this common renal malignancy. 25829424 2015
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Design and Activity of Specific Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-2α (HIF-2α) Inhibitors for the Treatment of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Discovery of Clinical Candidate ( S)-3-((2,2-Difluoro-1-hydroxy-7-(methylsulfonyl)-2,3-dihydro-1 H-inden-4-yl)oxy)-5-fluorobenzonitrile (PT2385). 30289716 2018
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Herein, we provide mechanistic evidence that HIF-2α can be degraded in cytoplasm under hypoxic conditions via the 26S proteasome and that MDM2 is the E3 ligase which induces the hypoxic degradation of HIF-2α in PI-3K-dependent manner in VHL-deficient RCC cells. 25578041 2015
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Identification of CDCP1 as a hypoxia-inducible factor 2α (HIF-2α) target gene that is associated with survival in clear cell renal cell carcinoma patients. 23378636 2013
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These studies validate HIF2α as a therapeutic target in ccRCC, reveal variable sensitivity to HIF2α antagonism, and provide the foundation for predictive biomarker-driven clinical trials. 27728802 2016
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Hypoxia-inducible factor 2alpha (HIF-2α) antagonists -PT2385, and PT2399 have been shown to have promising results in the management of clear cell renal cell carcinoma by targeting the HIF-2α pathway in recent and ongoing clinical trials (PT2799). 28946040 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Herein, we summarize the molecular background behind the use of HIF-2α inhibitors in ccRCC and give an overview of the development of new agents in this setting. 28259286 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE HIF2α is involved in the expansion of CXCR4-positive cancer stem-like cells in renal cell carcinoma. 26439684 2015
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE A small molecule inhibitor that binds to HIF-2α and blocks dimerization with HIF-1β is in clinical trials for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. 30625281 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE To investigate the oncolytic efficacy of a highly virulent (velogenic) Newcastle disease virus (NDV) in the presence or absence of HIF-2α, renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cell lines with defective or reconstituted wild-type (wt) von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) activity were used. 23506478 2013