Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Detection of EWSR1 translocations - particularly t(11;22)(q24;q12) - is of great value in the differential diagnosis of the Ewing family of tumors. 20513536 2010
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Impact of EWS-ETS fusion type on disease progression in Ewing's sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor: prospective results from the cooperative Euro-E.W.I.N.G. 99 trial. 20308673 2010
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE First, we analyzed the expression of CAV1 by immunostaining a tissue microarray containing 43 paraffin-embedded ESFT tumors with known EWS translocations. 21106507 2010
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition to EWS/FLI1 gene fusion, copy number changes are known to be significant for the underlying neoplastic development of ESFT and for patient outcome. 19144156 2009
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The diagnosis of EFTs is confirmed by molecular diagnostic testing showing the presence of established rearrangements of the EWS gene. 19411158 2009
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The molecular hallmark of the Ewing's family of tumors is the presence of balanced chromosomal translocations, leading to the formation of chimerical transcription factors (that is, EWS/FLI1) that play a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of Ewing's tumors by deregulating gene expression. 18591936 2008
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE As a result, it was not until the discovery that these tumors share a common underlying molecular pathogenesis (chromosomal translocations involving the EWS gene and one of several members of the ETS family of transcription factors) that significant advances in the diagnosis and therapy of ESFT became possible. 18088234 2008
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) indicated a rearrangement of the EWS region on chromosome 22, which is highly specific for Ewing's sarcoma and PNET, which are referred to as the Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors (EFT). 17610475 2007
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This report may provide an opportunity for further evaluation of the EWS-FLI1 type 1 fusion gene and detection of prognostic significance in periosteal ESFT. 17762498 2007
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE RT-PCR to detect EWS-ETS gene arrangements is widely used to confirm the diagnosis of Ewing's family of tumors. 17272319 2007
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In the other case, a variety of molecular studies did not reveal a translocation involving the EWS gene but this tumour, on the balance of probability, is still considered to represent a neoplasm in the EFTs. 17557870 2007
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Tumors of the Ewing family are characterized by chromosomal translocations that yield chimeric transcription factors, such as EWS/FLI1, which regulate the expression of specific genes that contribute to the malignant phenotype. 17438102 2007
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Together, our study represents a first approach to the separation of essential molecular consequences from noise generated by the EWS-FLI1 gene rearrangement in ESFT. 17163154 2006
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE High CD99 expression levels and rearrangements of the EWS gene with ETS transcription factor genes characterize the Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT). 16314831 2006
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE All cases of ESFT were confirmed to have a rearranged EWS gene. 16721801 2006
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Endogenous RHA was identified in a protein complex with EWS-FLI1 in ESFT cell lines. 16740692 2006
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Ewing sarcoma family of tumors research has benefited from new target discovery and enhanced biologic understanding of the EWS-FLI1 fusion protein. 15659957 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This is not a single condition, but a group of morphologically and clinically closely related disorders with similar molecular biology -- expression of tumor-specific chimeric oncoproteins through balanced chromosomal translocations involving the EWS gene -- often referred to as the Ewing family of tumors. 15877528 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The translocation t(11;22)(q24;q12) is the most common and leads to the formation of the EWS-FLI1 fusion protein, which contributes to ESFT pathogenesis by modulating the expression of target genes. 16096383 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pathologic studies revealed an Ewing sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (EWS/pPNET) with typical features including periodic acid Schiff positive diastase sensitive cytoplasmic substance; strong membranous pattern of immunoreactivity for CD99, and a reciprocal translocation of t(11;22)(q24;q12) that was demonstrated by fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). 16196395 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This is the first study in India with quantitative information about the types of EWS-FLI 1 translocations present in Ewing's family of tumours in south Indian patients. 16052075 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE EWS-FLI1 fusion protein up-regulates critical genes in neural crest development and is responsible for the observed phenotype of Ewing's family of tumors. 15930281 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Molecular detection of EWS-Ets fusion transcripts and their clinicopathologic significance in Ewing's sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor. 16157025 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Experiments using ESFT cell lines or animal xenograft models have proven that EWS-FLI1 is required for tumor survival. 16556028 2005
Ewing Sarcoma/Peripheral Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We retrospectively monitored tumor contamination in stem cell harvests from patients with Ewing family of tumors (EFT) all harboring the specific translocation EWS-FLI-1 that characterize these tumors. 15049010 2004