MGMT, O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase, 4255

N. diseases: 444; N. variants: 24
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE By this method, the expression levels of MGMT mRNA in six human glioma cell lines and 12 human brain tumor tissues from surgical specimens were determined. 1518162 1992
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Southern analysis of EcoRI-digested DNA probed with MGMT cDNA revealed no amplification, rearrangement or deletions of the MGMT gene in any of the glioma cell lines. 1893534 1991
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The basal promoter in glioma cells with minimal MGMT expression, however, which is 75% unmethylated, was much less accessible, and the basal promoter in nonexpressing cells, which is 50% unmethylated, was entirely inaccessible to restriction enzymes. 7523853 1994
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Expression of the O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene in human glioma cell lines is strongly associated with resistance to the chemotherapeutic agent 1,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitrosourea. 8006031 1994
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE MGMT expression correlated exclusively with ACNU resistance in all glioma cell lines examined (p = 0.0002). 10678554 1999
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Drug-resistance genes messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expressions were investigated in drug-resistant human glioma cell lines derived from U87MG and 46 frozen samples of retrospectively examined neuroepithelial tumors (12 low grade neuroepithelial tumors, 16 Grade III gliomas, 11 glioblastomas, and 7 other malignant neuroepithelial tumors such as medulloblastomas and primitive neuroectodermal tumors) by RT-PCR with the specific primers for O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), multidrug-resistance gene 1 (MDR1), multidrug-resistance-associated protein (MRP), and glutathione-S-transferase-pi (GST-pi). 10894369 2000
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Inactivation of the DNA-repair gene MGMT and the clinical response of gliomas to alkylating agents. 11070098 2000
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The dose-intensified BG and BCNU therapy produced significant growth delays of glioma xenografts in MGMT-P140K-transplanted mice, extending the tumor doubling time by >40 days. 14707273 2003
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Finally, the MGMT methylation status determined in the initial glioma tumor did not correlate with the clinical response to temozolomide when this drug was administered as treatment for relapses (P = 0.729). 15297393 2004
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE O6-Methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), a DNA repair protein, is one of the implicated factors in glioma chemoresistance. 16033832 2005
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease CTD_human Ninety-three patients with anaplastic glioma were analyzed for MGMT protein expression by immunohistochemistry. 16033832 2005
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Methylation specific polymerase chain reaction (MSP) was used to determine the methylation status the promoters for p16/(INK4a), MGMT, p73, and RARbeta within glioma tissue and plasma. 16466990 2006
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease CTD_human In vitro drug response and molecular markers associated with drug resistance in malignant gliomas. 16899598 2006
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease LHGDN Assessment of MGMTP status could help identifying low-grade gliomas patients more likely to respond to chemotherapy or to benefit from MGMT depletion strategies. 17192931 2006
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE A simplified laboratory validated assay for MGMT promoter hypermethylation analysis of glioma specimens from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue. 17260000 2007
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease LHGDN Thus, we propose that the study using the transformed astrocyte cells would be useful for identifying the mechanisms underlying MGMT regulation in tumor and for the development of rational drug combination in glioma therapies. 17547775 2007
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Methylation of the O(6)-methyguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene promoter in gliomas has been reported to be a useful predictor of the responsiveness to temozolomide (TMZ). 17564708 2008
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Efficacy of temozolomide is correlated with 1p loss and methylation of the deoxyribonucleic acid repair gene MGMT in malignant gliomas. 17721049 2007
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We also found a significant correlation between the extent of NF-kappaB activation and MGMT expression in the glioma cell lines and the human glial tumors tested and showed that it was independent of MGMT promoter methylation. 17875738 2007
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Using the population based San Francisco Adult Glioma study, we evaluated associations between XRCC1 Arg399Gln, MGMT Leu84Phe, and MGMT Ile143Val polymorphisms with glioma risk among white cases (n = 441 to 453) and controls (n = 487 to 526). 17898525 2007
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE MGMT promoter methylation and low expression of MGMT-encoded protein are frequently observed in low-grade gliomas and anaplastic oligodendroglial tumours. 17906460 2007
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE While treatment with 5azadC downregulated hTERT and upregulated MGMT expression in two glioma cell lines, there was no change in the expression of these two genes in the normal cell line. 18021753 2008
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE PsPD has a clinical impact on chemotherapy-treated GBM, as it may express the glioma killing effects of treatment and is significantly correlated with MGMT status. 18445844 2008
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Validation of real-time methylation-specific PCR to determine O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase gene promoter methylation in glioma. 18556773 2008
CUI: C0017638
Disease: Glioma
Glioma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Therefore, to correctly establish MGMT expression in the tumor, which could be informative of glioma sensitivity to alkylating agents, exclusion of non-neoplastic brain components from analysis is required. 18580490 2008