Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 CausalMutation disease CGI
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Ecotropic virus, which normally does not infect human cells, when pseudotyped with the modified envelope protein now crosses species to infect human breast cancer cell lines that overexpress HER-2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor; also called ERBB2) and HER-4 (also called ERBB4), while human breast cancer cell lines expressing low levels of these receptors remain resistant to infection. 7568210 1995
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE The significance of erbB-3 and erbB-4 in breast cancer is not yet known. 8764133 1996
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE c-erbB3 and c-erbB4 expression is a feature of the endocrine responsive phenotype in clinical breast cancer. 9788438 1998
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Administration of heregulin-beta2 (HRG), a ligand for erbB3 and erbB4, to growth arrested T-47D human breast cancer cells leads to activation of both the PI3-kinase and MAP kinase signalling pathways and potent stimulation of cell cycle progression. 9652748 1998
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE The precise biological role of this oncogenic signaling pathway (which also involves the HER4 gene) in breast cancer is unclear. 9563896 1998
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results identify suitable cell lines for the further investigation of erbB-4 expression and function and suggest that the role of erbB-4 in breast cancer warrants further investigation with larger numbers of normal and malignant breast tissues. 9780009 1998
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Due to these correlations, erbB-4 oncogene amplification can be assumed to be of prognostic or predictive value in the diagnosis of breast cancer. 9858771 1998
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE c-erbB-4 protein expression in human breast cancer. 10735500 2000
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE We measured the expression of the type I growth factor receptor gene family [epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), c-erbB-2, c-erbB-3 and c-erbB-4] in a series of 365 unselected primary breast cancers. 11106235 2000
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Overexpression of ErbB2 and ErbB4 receptors in breast cancers may be accompanied by contrasting clinical outcomes. 14973552 2004
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The expression of transcripts encoding the cleavable ErbB4 isoforms associated with estrogen receptor-alpha (ER) expression (P < 0.001) and a high histologic grade of differentiation (P </= 0.002) in real-time reverse transcription-PCR analysis of 62 breast cancer samples. 15735025 2005
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our results indicate that ERBB4 is a unique coregulator of ER, directly coupling extranuclear and nuclear estrogen actions in breast cancer. 16912174 2006
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Thus, the roles that ErbB4 plays in human breast cancer are still poorly defined. 17120616 2006
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE HER4 in breast cancer: comparison of antibodies against intra- and extra-cellular domains of HER4. 16606438 2006
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE These data suggest a novel transforming mechanism for the ErbB4 receptor in human breast cancer that is 1) specific for a single receptor isoform and 2) depends on proteinase cleavage and kinase activity but not ligand activation of the receptor. 16251361 2006
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Heregulins are a family of ligands for the ErbB3/ErbB4 receptors that play important roles in breast cancer cell proliferation and tumorigenesis. 16428439 2006
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Knockdown of BRCA1 with small interfering RNA in a human breast cancer cell line interfered with HER4-mediated mitotic delay. 16914727 2006
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In analysis of selected candidate cancer susceptibility genes, two MSR1 SNPs (rs9325782, GEE p = 0.008 and rs2410373, FBAT p = 0.021) were associated with prostate cancer and three ERBB4 SNPs (rs905883 GEE p = 0.0002, rs7564590 GEE p = 0.003, rs7558615 GEE p = 0.0078) were associated with breast cancer. 17903305 2007
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In vitro, Wwox associated with the two ErbB4 isoforms, JM-a CYT-1 and JM-a CYT-2, expressed in breast cancer. 17909041 2007
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Overall, the simultaneous quantification of HER3 and HER4 receptor genes by means of FISH might enable the rendering of a more precise stratification of breast cancer patients by providing additional prognostic information. 18182100 2008
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE This review focuses on recent advances in our understanding about the role of ErbB4 in breast carcinogenesis, as well as in the potential clinical relevance of ErbB4 in breast cancer prognostics and therapy. 18454307 2008
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition a developmental and temporal model of 4ICD action in the normal breast and during the progression of breast cancer will be presented to explain the paradox of divergent HER4 and 4ICD activities. 18473151 2008
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These data indicate that EGFR as well as HER2 are prognostic factors of worse clinical outcomes, whereas HER3 and HER4 gene transcription is associated with better prognosis in high-risk early breast cancer. 18985033 2008
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Although HER4 is known to potentially exert a tumour cell killing activity and in turn to have a favourable impact in breast cancer patients we demonstrate here the first time that HER4 expression prolongs overall survival in Herceptin-treated patients. 19624808 2009