LEP, leptin, 3952

N. diseases: 931; N. variants: 15
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Significant WLI vs. AC differences were seen in baseline-to-follow-up changes in weight (-3.62 vs. -0.52 kg), %body fat (-1.3 vs. 0%), moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (+224 vs. +115 min/week), caloric density (-0.3 vs. 0 kcal/g), serum leptin (-12.3 vs. -4.0 ng/dl) and upregulation of tumor PI3Kinase signaling and cell cycle-apoptosis related genes (CC-ARG; all p-values <0.05). 31442303 2020
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Leptin is a nutritional cytokine encoded by the obesity gene whose concentration in the tumor microenvironment is closely related to the occurrence and progression of cancer. 31119158 2019
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Engineering oncolytic viruses to express leptin in tumor cells induced complete responses in tumor-bearing mice and supported memory development in the tumor infiltrate. 31471106 2019
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Incidentally discovered PHEO tumor size correlated with leptin and IL6 levels. 31738032 2019
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Leptin enhances N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG)-induced tumour growth in gastric mucosa of male Sprague-Dawley rats. 31444698 2019
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Collectively, these studies demonstrate that although MDSC protect against some metabolic dysfunction associated with HFD they enhance tumor growth in HFD mice and that leptin is a key regulator linking HFD, chronic inflammation, immune suppression, and tumor progression. 29345342 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE A growing body of evidence suggests an important role of leptin in our major obesity-related health issues such as insulin resistance, hypertension, and neoplasia. 30397604 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The profiles were tested on 1) snap-frozen tumors from 133 patients with completely resected stage 1B-2 NSCLC randomized to adjuvant cisplatin and vinorelbine (ACV, n = 71) or no adjuvant treatment (OBS, n = 62) and 2) formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tumors from 95 patients with completely resected stage 1A-3B NSCLC receiving adjuvant cisplatin and vinorelbine. 29566065 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE These data demonstrate the potential of targeting leptin to improve tumor immunotherapy when immune-modulating comorbidities are present. 30135180 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Leptin stimulated migration and invasion of cultured HCT-116 cells and tumor growth in the xenograft assay, and these effects were abrogated by a SIRT1 inhibitor sirtinol, suggesting that SIRT1 plays a role in leptin-induced colon carcinogenesis. 29427626 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Hence, the current findings suggest that acute treatments of tumor Leydig cells with high levels of leptin have negligible effects on transcriptomics and rather supports that leptin would have a central effect on the hypothalamus to influence testicular function. 30174195 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Thus, immunohistochemical staining of leptin in colorectal cancer could be a helpful tool in the prediction of prognosis and survival pattern of colorectal cancer with certain clinicopathological factors (tumor size, lymphovascular invasion, distant metastasis, local recurrence, and relapse of disease). 30142858 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In the present study, the function of a leptin-derived peptide (LP16, 91-110 of Leptin) was investigated as a targeting ligand to decorate PEGylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD, Doxil<sup>®</sup>) surface and the anti-tumor activity and therapeutic efficacy of Doxil in C26 (Colon Carcinoma) tumor model were also evaluated. 29413587 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Many studies have indicated that leptin is correlated with breast cancer occurrence and tumor behavior. 29979411 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE However, only leptin remained an independent predictive factor for advanced tumor stage (≥pT3) (OR=1.15) in patients with obesity. 29299904 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Diagnostic values of leptin and galectin-3 with regard to differentiation between high (Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie Obstétrique [FIGO] III and IV) and low (FIGO I and II) stages of clinical tumor advancement and prediction of tumor grading (G1 vs G3) based on the AUC curve were 0.82/0.70 and 0.80/0.74. 29559794 2018
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE This exploratory study was carried out to determine the expression levels of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF), insulin-like growth factor 1, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and leptin in serum and tumor samples from patients with uveal melanoma and to investigate the potential association of these expression levels with disease progression and patient survival. 28118269 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Vasculogenic mimicry (VM) was an important tumor blood supply to complement the endothelial cell-dependent angiogenesis, while leptin and receptor (ObR) involved in angiogenesis in glioblastoma has been reported on previous study, but the relationship between ObR expression and VM formation in human glioblastoma tissues, as well as their prognostic significance still remains unclear. 28938545 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Furthermore, pathway analysis of these transcripts demonstrated their association with active inflammation and colon cancer signaling, with leptin and Wnt as the top two transcripts elevated in mouse HFD colon shared with tumors. 28426873 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The results demonstrated a statistically significant increase in the level of leptin in plasma samples from the tumor microenvironment of obese patients with estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, compared with peripheral plasma samples. 28565832 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Therefore, we hypothesize that over-expression of LEPR, rather than that of LEP has a fundamental role in breast carcinogenesis in particular, and probably for LEP-LEPR associated tumors in general. 27914811 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 PosttranslationalModification group BEFREE Collectively, the studies suggest that breastfeeding might be negatively associated with promoter methylation of LEP (which encodes an anorexigenic hormone), CDKN2A (involved in tumour suppression) and Slc2a4 genes (which encodes an insulin-related glucose transporter) and positively with promoter methylation of the Nyp (which encodes an orexigenic neuropeptide) gene, as well as influence global methylation patterns and modulate epigenetic effects of some genetic variants. 28257446 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Two adipokines in particular, leptin and adiponectin, have come to be recognized for their influence on breast cancer risk and tumour biology. 28414093 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Although the underlying pathological mechanisms of leptin's association with poor prognosis are not clear, leptin can impact the tumor microenvironment in several ways. 29158066 2017
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), LEP is hypothesized to predominantly mediate its tumorigenic effects via a subpopulation of LEPRb-positive tumor cells termed cancer stem cells (CSCs) that can initiate tumors and induce tumor progression. 28729467 2017