KRT20, keratin 20, 54474

N. diseases: 559; N. variants: 1
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 This localization places the CD20 gene near the site of the t(11;14)(q13;q32) translocation that is found in a subgroup of B cell-lineage malignancies. 2466898 1989
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In gastrointestinal carcinomas similarly examined, CK 20 has been detected in almost all cases (50/52) of colorectal adenocarcinomas, including all grades of differentiation and malignancy and also metastatic tumors, whereas CK 20 immunostaining in gastric carcinomas has been found less consistent and more heterogeneous. 8359595 1993
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE CK 20 expression was observed in the cancer cells of both cancer types. 10537351 1999
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE CK20 mRNA was found in 13 of 18 (72%) blood samples from patients with cancer of epithelial origin and in all the epithelial tumor cells tested. 10470150 1999
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Cytokeratin 20 (CK 20) is selectively expressed in urothelium, gastric intestinal epithelium, in Merkel cells and in a variety of malignant neoplasms. 10893639 2000
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE We used a reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to detect circulating breast cancer cells in venous blood samples before operations and assessed cytokeratin-19 (CK-19) and cytokeratin-20 (CK-20) as target mRNA markers in the blood of healthy donors (n=6) and breast cancer patients (n=30) with American Joint Committee on Cancer stages 0 to IIIa. 10803697 2000
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE An understanding of CD20 function from signal transduction to biological implications may prove important for the mechanistic understanding of the treatment of certain types of cancer. 11225995 2000
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE These results characterize low-level, epithelial cell-specific CK20 expression in infiltrated lymph nodes from subjects with noncolorectal cancer types and demonstrate the potential advantages of detecting circulating epithelial cells by quantitative PCR. 11705858 2001
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Further cases must be evaluated to understand the clinical significance of the CD20 expression on the surface of T cell malignancies. 11475154 2001
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Cell lines of different lineages and bone marrow and peripheral stem cells from patients without epithelial cancer have been examined for the transcription of the cytokeratin-20 (CK20) and mammaglobin messages prior to and after stimulation with different cytokines in a total of 370 liquid cultures. 11778968 2001
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE RT-PCR products for CK8 and CK18 were detected in all cancer cell lines, but only 16, 5, and 11 cell lines provided evidence for CK19, CK7, and CK20 transcription. 11598148 2001
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Although its coexpression has been reported in up to 10% cases of precursor T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma, the coexpression of both CD20 and CD79a has not been described in mature T-cell malignancies. 11235901 2001
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE CK20 mean values were elevated in cancer patients (P<0.001) and defined a subgroup (38%) who showed CK20 levels at least 100-fold above the highest value of the healthy control group. 12420218 2002
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Furthermore, this approach may have broader applications to other Bcl-2- and CD20-expressing lymphoid malignancies. 12738752 2003
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE CK-20 expression was observed in the peripheral blood of 19 out of 47 (40.4%) patients with malignant tumors, 2 out of 9 (22.2%) patients with benign tumors and 3 out of 15 (20%) patients with non-tumor diseases. 12894563 2003
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The expression of CK20 mRNA by RT-PCR was investigated in bone marrow, portal vein and peripheral blood in 58 colorectal cancer patients and 12 controls without known cancer. 15637763 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Despite the potential critical role of CD20 in the biology of B cell malignancies, the mechanisms controlling its expression are poorly understood. 15944291 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Rituximab (chimeric anti-human CD20 monoclonal antibody) is the first anti-cancer monoclonal antibody approved by the FDA for the treatment of B-NHL. 15939340 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Thus, RRBL1 may be useful not only for analyses of mechanisms for the absence of CD20 expression in vitro but also for exploration of therapies against CD20- B-cell malignancies in vivo. 17675267 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Since rituximab, a chimeric monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody, was introduced into clinical practice in 1997, data regarding its benefit in terms of response rate, quality of response, progression-free survival and overall survival in B-cell lymphoid malignancies continues to expand. 17338647 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The anti-CD20 chimeric monoclonal antibody (mAb) rituximab is the most widely used therapeutic antibody for B-cell malignancies. 18497988 2008
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Importantly, in contrast to parental NK-92, CD20-specific NK cells efficiently lysed CD20 expressing but otherwise NK-resistant established and primary lymphoma and leukemia cells, demonstrating that this strategy can overcome NK-cell resistance and might be suitable for the development of effective cell-based therapeutics for the treatment of B-cell malignancies. 17717662 2008
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Identification of an alternative CD20 transcript variant in B-cell malignancies coding for a novel protein associated to rituximab resistance. 20089966 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Thus, CD20-targeted delivery of LDM is a specific and potent therapeutic strategy for B-lymphoid malignancies. 20463754 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Bortezomib modulates surface CD20 in B-cell malignancies and affects rituximab-mediated complement-dependent cytotoxicity. 20200358 2010