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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
PosttranslationalModification
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group |
BEFREE |
This is the first report of a structural alteration of ERG in human cancer.
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8076344 |
1994 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
Biomarker
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group |
BEFREE |
Activation of ERG by fusion with TMPRSS2 may lead to epigenetic reprogramming, WNT signaling, and down-regulation of cell death pathways, implicating ERG in several hallmarks of cancer with potential therapeutic importance.
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17079440 |
2006 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
AlteredExpression
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group |
BEFREE |
Seventy-six adult patients with primary CN-AML, younger than 60 years and treated on Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) trial 19808, were evaluated for ERG expression by quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction.
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17577018 |
2007 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
GeneticVariation
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group |
BEFREE |
If we consider the high incidence of PCA and the high frequency of this gene fusion, TMPRSS2-ERG is the most common genetic aberration so far described in human malignancies.
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17527075 |
2007 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
GeneticVariation
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group |
BEFREE |
Prostates harbouring ERG alterations commonly also contained cancer that lacked rearrangements of the ERG gene.
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17922029 |
2008 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
GeneticVariation
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group |
BEFREE |
However as this case shows, significant heterogeneity can exist with ERG and ETV1 rearrangements occurring in both prostate intra-epithelial neoplasia and cancer in the same prostatectomy specimen and with adjacent cancer areas containing a single copy, duplication and even triplication of the rearranged locus.
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19066166 |
2009 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
Biomarker
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group |
BEFREE |
The TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion status was homogenous within the same cancer focus and 82% of fusion positive PCA were present in GS 6 or 7 vs. 14% in GS 8 (p = 0.004).
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19029822 |
2009 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
GeneticVariation
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group |
BEFREE |
Significantly, association between PTEN deletion and ERG rearrangement was present both in localized cancers (P=0.0008) and metastases (P=0.02).
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19407851 |
2009 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
GeneticVariation
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group |
BEFREE |
Fusions between TMPRSS2, encoding the transmembrane serine protease isoform 2, and ERG, encoding the v-ets erythroblastosis virus E26 oncogene homolog, are among the most common oncogenic rearrangements observed in human cancer.
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20601956 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
AlteredExpression
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group |
BEFREE |
Functional studies demonstrated that ERG has an inhibitory effect on TFF3 expression in hormone-naive cancer but not in the castration-resistant state.
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21170267 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
Biomarker
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group |
BEFREE |
We independently evaluated two patient cohorts and observed ERG expression confined to prostate cancer cells and high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia associated with ERG-positive cancer, as well as vessels and lymphocytes (where ERG has a known biologic role).
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20651988 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
Biomarker
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group |
BEFREE |
No significant difference in TMPRSS2-ERG incidence was observed between patients with and without cribriform glands, glomerulations, signet-ring cells, or intraductal cancer (P=0.821, 0.095, 0.132, 0.375).
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20562851 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
Biomarker
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group |
BEFREE |
A recent study suggested that TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion is lacking in cancers arising from the transition zone of the prostate.
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20693982 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
AlteredExpression
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group |
BEFREE |
BAALC and ERG expression levels are associated with outcome and distinct gene and microRNA expression profiles in older patients with de novo cytogenetically normal acute myeloid leukemia: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B study.
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20841507 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
GeneticVariation
|
group |
BEFREE |
Fluorescently labeled probes specific for ERG-related rearrangements involving the TMPRSS2-ERG fusion as well as TMPRSS2-ETV1 and TMPRSS2-ETV4 were used to assess samples for gene rearrangements indicative of malignancy under a design of sequential trial.
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20616363 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
GeneticVariation
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group |
BEFREE |
The higher-dose dutasteride treatment group was found to include significantly fewer cancers with TMPRSS2-ERG genetic fusions.
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20124490 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
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0.100 |
Biomarker
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group |
BEFREE |
There was no association between TMPRSS2:ERG fusion and prognosis, suggesting that TMPRSS2:ERG rearrangement does not implicate hormone dependence of the cancer.
|
20442300 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
Biomarker
|
group |
BEFREE |
TMPRSS-ERG fusion was found in approximately 70% of cancers examined.
|
19938015 |
2010 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
Biomarker
|
group |
BEFREE |
Although TMPRSS2-ERG fusion seems to be a critical event in prostate cancer, the precise functional role in cancer development and progression is still unclear.
|
22142399 |
2011 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
AlteredExpression
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group |
BEFREE |
These findings were corroborated in vivo, where the control cells gave rise to discrete nodules while the TMPRSS2/ERG-expressing cells formed malignant tumors, which expressed EMT markers.
|
21747944 |
2011 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
GeneticVariation
|
group |
BEFREE |
ERG gene alterations were found only in prostate malignancies and not in benign prostatic tissue or bladder small cell carcinoma.
|
21499238 |
2011 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
AlteredExpression
|
group |
BEFREE |
TMPRSS2-ERG is the most common gene fusion in PCa, whereas activation of telomerase is a common feature of various malignancies.
|
22505341 |
2012 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
AlteredExpression
|
group |
BEFREE |
We examined 100 prostate cancer patients, diagnosed by means of prostate biopsy; fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to detect the expression of TMPRSS2, ERG, ETV1 and ETV4 in cancer tissue.
|
23244085 |
2012 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
Biomarker
|
group |
BEFREE |
ERG rearrangement for predicting subsequent cancer diagnosis in high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and lymph node metastasis.
|
22696228 |
2012 |
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Malignant Neoplasms
|
0.100 |
GeneticVariation
|
group |
BEFREE |
Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT) refers to aggressive malignancies which frequently harbor characteristic EWS-FLI1 or EWS-ERG genomic fusions.
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22287547 |
2012 |