MSH6, mutS homolog 6, 2956

N. diseases: 296; N. variants: 642
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Concurrent reduction of three MMR genes namely hMLH1, hMSH6 and hMSH2 (34-85%, P<0.05) was observed in prostate cancer tissues. hMSH6 polymorphism rs1800932(Pro92Pro) conferred a borderline protection in cancer patients (OR = 0.33, 95% CI = 0.15-0.75). 25938433 2015
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Whole-exome capture and massively parallel sequencing combined with homozygosity mapping identified a homozygous novel mutation in the MSH6 gene that leads to constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome and increased cancer risk. 22493294 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The predicted truncation from a cancer-associated variant of the MSH2 initiation codon alters activity of the MSH2-MSH6 mismatch repair complex. 21837758 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We developed the PREMM(1,2,6) model, which incorporates information on cancer history from probands and their relatives to estimate an individual's risk of mutations in the MMR genes MLH1, MSH2, and MSH6. 20727894 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE MSH6 missense mutations are often associated with no or low cancer susceptibility. 15354210 2004
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Specifically, individuals with MSH6 mutations could be offered cancer surveillance from a later age. 28772289 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The inactivation of an MMR gene (MSH2, MSH6, MLH1, or PMS2) with an inherited mutation causes Lynch syndrome (LS), a dominant susceptibility to cancer. 22581703 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Based on this approach, we have shown that four nsSNPs, which were predicted to have functional consequences (MSH2-Y43C, MSH6-Y538S, MSH6-S580L, and MSH6-K854M), were already found to be associated with cancer risk. 19389263 2009
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We show that the stability of the MSH2/MSH6 heterodimer is severely perturbed, causing attenuated MMR in in vitro assays and cancer predisposition in mice. 27873144 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Interestingly, preinvasive laryngeal lesions with MSI at hMSH2/hMSH6 loci frequently had instability at one or more additional loci and were considered as MSI(+) (overall in eight of 12 cases: six premalignant lesions progressed to cancer and one without progression of the original laryngeal lesion, p < .01). 16721747 2006
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Dominant effects of an Msh6 missense mutation on DNA repair and cancer susceptibility. 15324697 2004
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Compound heterozygosity for two MSH6 mutations in a patient with early onset of HNPCC-associated cancers, but without hematological malignancy and brain tumor. 16418736 2006
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE A cancer-derived mutation localized between two of the three NLS significantly decreases nuclear localization of MSH6, suggesting altered protein localization can contribute to carcinogenesis. 21437237 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Mutations in MSH6 have also been found but these do not always cause a clear cancer predisposition phenotype and MSH6-defective tumors often do not show the standard characteristics of MMR deficiency, such as microsatellite instability. 24040339 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Lynch Syndrome (LS) is a cancer susceptibility syndrome caused mostly by mutations in the mismatch repair genes, hMLH1, hMSH2 and hMSH6. 20640520 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer is the most common known genetic syndrome that predisposes to various types of cancer including gastric cancer and occures mainly due to pathogenic germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes, such as MLH1, MSH2 and MSH6. 21136174 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The distributions of cancer deaths in 485 individuals from 67 families with LS (35, 30, and two families with MutL homologue 1 (MLH1), MSH2, and MSH6 gene mutations, respectively), obtained from the Registry of the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum were analyzed. 27069191 2016
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We have obtained precise and accurate estimates of both absolute and relative cancer risks for MSH6 mutation carriers. 20028993 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The rate of MSH6 mutations was 0.93% (4/429) when considering only cases with a personal or first-degree relative with LS-related cancer, and 0.17% (1/587) of cases with second-degree relative or no family history of LS-related cancers (p = 0.087). 30498870 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The hereditary breast (BC) and ovarian (OC) cancer syndrome (HBOC) includes genetic alterations of various susceptibility genes such as TP53, ATM, PTEN or MSH2, MLH1, PMS1, PMS2, MSH3 and MSH6, BRCA1 and BRCA2. 10954253 2000
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Lynch syndrome is the predisposition to visceral malignancies that are associated with deleterious germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes, including MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, and PMS2. 18270343 2008
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Cancer data from 1980 to 2007 were obtained from the Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Registry in Toronto for 321 persons with known MMR mutations: mutL homolog 1, colon cancer, nonpolyposis type 2 (E. coli) (MLH1); mutS homolog 2, colon cancer, nonpolyposis type 1 (E. coli) (MSH2); mutS homolog 6 (E. coli) (MSH6); and PMS2 postmeiotic segregation increased 2 (S. cerevisiae) (PMS2). 22883484 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Mutations in human MutS alpha (MSH2/MSH6) that lead to hereditary predisposition for cancer, such as hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, can be mapped to this crystal structure. 11048711 2000
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We investigated the clinical and molecular features of the MSH6 variants, such as the family cancer history, pathological findings, immunohistochemistry, methylation status of the MLH1 promoter and BRAF mutation in the colorectal tumor. 24100870 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Variant calling with standard settings identified the 10 mutations in the control set, with the exception of MSH6 c.255dupC using TruSight Cancer. 28050010 2017