NF2, neurofibromin 2, 4771

N. diseases: 312; N. variants: 54
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Loss of PTPRJ/DEP-1 enhances NF2/Merlin-dependent meningioma development. 31715329 2020
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To investigate neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) gene mutation at mRNA levels in sporadic orbitocranial meningioma and its association with progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA expression. 31024808 2019
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Next-generation sequencing studies and increasingly sophisticated <i>NF2</i>-deletion-based <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> models have helped elucidate the consequences of merlin loss in meningioma pathogenesis. 31652973 2019
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This revealed that a frameshift deletion of the neurofibromin 2 gene likely drove formation of the meningioma. 29764516 2018
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In two pairs of syngenous meningeal or meningioma cell lines with or without shRNA-mediated knockdown of NF2/Merlin a nearly complete loss of CD73 mRNA expression was observed after the knockdown (p ≤ 0.001). 29468444 2018
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The best defined of these syndromes is neurofibromatosis type 2, which is caused by a mutation in the NF2 gene and has a meningioma incidence of approximately 50%. 29660026 2018
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The most frequent mutation among all meningioma grades occurred in the NF2 gene at 85% (11/13). 29846894 2018
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We identified over 2000 proteins in comparative experiments between Merlin-deficient schwannoma and meningioma compared to human Schwann and meningeal cells respectively. 28126595 2017
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In addition, these cell lines also harbored known meningioma driver mutations in neurofibromin 2 (NF2) and TNF receptor-associated factor 7 (TRAF7). 28552950 2017
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE MLPA screening identified NF2 gene deletions in 6 of 12 meningioma samples. 27871894 2017
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Methylation-specific PCR verified that IL-1β induced methylation of the NF2 promoter and decreased NF2/merlin expression in meningioma/leptomeningeal cells. 26840621 2016
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Merlin expression and YAP phosphorylation were also affected by cell density in the IOMM-Lee and HKBMM human meningioma cell lines; nuclear localization of YAP was regulated by cell density and extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffness in IOMM-Lee cells. 26049897 2015
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This study explores the status of the NF2 gene in pleuropulmonary meningothelial proliferations compared with CNS meningioma using interphase fluorescence in situ hybridization. 26291511 2015
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Moreover, Axl positively regulates the oncogene Yes-associated protein, which is known to be under merlin regulation in schwannoma and is involved in increased proliferation of merlin-deficient meningioma and mesothelioma. 23318455 2014
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cell lines Ben-Men-1 (benign), IOMM-Lee and KT21 (malignant), and pairs of merlin-positive or -negative meningioma cells were used to assess sensitivity toward mTORC1 inhibitors in methyl-tetrazolium and bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) assays. 23406776 2013
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Ring chromosome 22 and neurofibromatosis type II: proof of two-hit model for the loss of the NF2 gene in the development of meningioma. 21175598 2012
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Transfection of genetic constructs of common NF2 missense mutations into NF2 gene-deficient meningioma cell lines revealed that merlin loss of function is due to a reduction in mutant protein half-life and increased protein degradation. 21383154 2011
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Losses on 22q12.2, a region encoding the tumor suppressor gene merlin, represent the most common genetic alterations in early meningioma formation. 21529177 2011
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In our series, NF2 gene inactivation was an early and frequent event in progressing meningioma samples (73%). 20682713 2010
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE NF2/merlin is a novel negative regulator of mTOR complex 1, and activation of mTORC1 is associated with meningioma and schwannoma growth. 19451225 2009
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition, merlin loss in both meningioma cell lines and primary tumors resulted in increased YAP expression and nuclear localization. 18953429 2008
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In our study, we investigated 149 meningiomas to determine whether there are additional tumor suppressor genes localized on chromosome 22q, apart from NF2, that might be involved in meningioma pathogenesis. 18474292 2008
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE Analysis of 40 CpG sites distributed within 750 bp of the promoter region suggests that NF2 promoter methylation does not play a major role in meningioma development. 17222329 2007
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here we report on the clinical, radiological, and histological findings in an 8-year-old boy who was diagnosed with an isolated infratentorial meningioma and a novel splice site mutation in the NF2 gene. 17607601 2007
Meningioma, benign, no ICD-O subtype
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE When we compared the NF2 gene expression in the different meningioma grades we did not note a significant difference (P = 0.698) despite the tendency to decrease from grade I to grade III. 17319281 2007