EPCAM, epithelial cell adhesion molecule, 4072

N. diseases: 328; N. variants: 16
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We focused our study on the colorectal-carcinoma(CRC)-associated antigen GA733 (also known as CO17-1A/KS1-4/KSA/EpCAM). 10881691 2000
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Targeting the GA733 antigen (also known as CO17-1A, EGP, KS1-4, KSA, Ep-CAM) by monoclonal antibody CO17-1A or anti-idiotypic antibodies mimicking the CO17-1A or GA733 epitope has induced prolonged survival and specific immune responses to the antigen, respectively, in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. 11279610 2001
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The human colorectal carcinoma (CRC)-associated GA733 antigen (Ag), also named CO17-1A/EpCAM/KSA/KS1-4, has been a useful target in passive immunotherapy of CRC patients with monoclonal antibody (mAb) and in active immunotherapy with anti-idiotypic antibodies or with recombinant protein. 11960289 2002
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Colorectal carcinoma cells express the tumor-associated antigen epithelial cellular adhesion molecule (Ep-CAM)/KSA. 12855617 2003
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Analysis of the surface molecule repertoire of EpCAM(high)/CD44+ cells led to the identification of CD166 as an additional differentially expressed marker, useful for CSC isolation in three of three CRC tested. 17548814 2007
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE These data demonstrate abnormal processing of Ep-CAM at the invasive margin of colorectal carcinomas. 17361206 2007
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a transmembrane glycoprotein that is overexpressed in the majority of human epithelial carcinomas, including breast and colorectal carcinomas. 19141643 2009
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The aim of this study was to elucidate the prognostic impact of putative cancer stem cell markers CD133, CD166, CD44s, EpCAM, and aldehyde dehydrogenase-1 (ALDH1) in colorectal cancer. 20606680 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Family R and Family A members showed segregation of CRC with the presence of this EPCAM mutation. 21769135 2011
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE 93 of the 194 EPCAM deletion carriers were diagnosed with colorectal cancer; three of the 92 women with EPCAM deletions were diagnosed with endometrial cancer. 21145788 2011
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The risk of colorectal cancer in carriers of such EPCAM deletions is comparable to that of MSH2 mutation carriers, and is in accordance with a high expression of EPCAM in colorectal cancer stem cells. 23264089 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our study's aim was to explore EPCAM expression in colorectal carcinomas of MSH2-associated LS cases to evaluate the usefulness of EPCAM protein expression in the algorithm approach to LS population screening. 23026194 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Efficacy and feasibility of the epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) immunomagnetic cell sorter for studies of DNA methylation in colorectal cancer. 24362576 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE CRC primary tumors were immunohistochemically stained for EpCAM expression with BerEP4 monoclonal antibody. 25785486 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Generation of an anti-EpCAM antibody and epigenetic regulation of EpCAM in colorectal cancer. 25652097 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Approximately 12-17 % of CRCs demonstrate MSI with germline mutations in genes involved in DNA mismatch repair, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2 and TACSTD1/EPCAM and somatic MLH1 promotor hypermethylation being alternative pathways for the development of microsatellite unstable CRC. 25213678 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In colorectal cancer (CoCa) EpCAM is frequently associated with claudin-7. 25514462 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE This included quality control, consisting of the confirmation of human and colorectal cancer (CRC) origin by DNA fingerprint and epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) staining, as well as mycoplasma and human virus testing. 25574089 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE GA733-1 gene expression was significantly higher in cancerous samples; conversely, the GA733-2 mRNA levels were higher in noncancerous tissues, and were significantly correlated with lymph node perforation in colorectal cancer (P < 0.05). 26600538 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Using data from the Colon Cancer Family Registry, we compared the proportion of childhood cancers (diagnosed before 18 years of age) in the first-, second-, and third-degree relatives of 781 probands with a pathogenic mutation in one of the MMR genes; MLH1 (n = 275), MSH2 (n = 342), MSH6 (n = 99), or PMS2 (n = 55) or in EPCAM (n = 10) (Lynch syndrome families), with that of 5073 probands with MMR-deficient colorectal cancer (non-Lynch syndrome families). 25963852 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Finally, we found that patients with LLS and LS-EPCAM shared clinical features that differed from LS-MMR patients, including lower frequency of fulfillment of the revised Bethesda guidelines (83.6 and 86.7% vs. 98.1% for LS-MMR) and older mean age at CRC diagnosis (52.6 and 52.7 years vs. 43.9 years for LS-MMR). 25110875 2015
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE EPCAM-CL can be used to screen for EPCAM deletion-induced Lynch syndrome-associated CRC, whereas EPCAM-PL can be used as an indicator of tumor aggressiveness and poor prognosis in CRC. 26528695 2016
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In conclusion, this study for the first time indicates that expression of EpCAM(MT) is associated with a more aggressive phenotype and predicts poor survival in patients with colorectal cancer. 26996277 2016
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Previously we reported that LIM1863 colorectal cancer (CRC) cells secrete three distinct extracellular vesicle subtypes - two subpopulations of exosomes (apical EpCAM-Exos and basolateral A33-Exos) and shed microvesicles (sMVs) - with distinct protein and miRNA signatures. 27917920 2016
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Ep-CAM expression was significantly higher in CRC compared with normal controls, and its overexpression was negatively linked to tumor differentiation, tumor stage, vascular invasion, depth of tumor invasion, lymph node metastasis, distant metastasis, and tumor budding in CRC patients. 28558958 2017