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
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Pulmonary metastases of colorectal cancer were positive for CK20 in 83% and CDX2 in 99% of the cases. 30389437 2019
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Conclusion Serum CK20 mRNA expression was significantly elevated in colorectal cancer patients which could be a promising serum biomarker for colorectal cancer diagnosis with high specificity. 29043299 2017
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Predictive value of CK20 in evaluating the efficacy of treatment and prognosis after surgery for colorectal cancer. 26125781 2015
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Statistical analysis revealed that the combination of CK19 and CK20 could be useful in the exclusion of colorectal cancer, as well as the diagnosis and exclusion of gastric cancer. 24922677 2014
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Loss of CDX2/CK20 expression is associated with poorly differentiated carcinoma, the CpG island methylator phenotype, and adverse prognosis in microsatellite-unstable colorectal cancer. 24025523 2013
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cytokeratin 20 and vascular endothelial growth factor as molecular markers in Egyptian patients with colorectal cancer. 20395351 2011
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The clinical significance of findings in colorectal cancer was investigated by detecting CK20-positive CTCs (pCTC) in patients with colorectal cancer, other common cancers, colorectal adenoma, benign colorectal diseases, and normal subjects. 19188172 2009
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE CDX1 and KRT20 mRNA expression were significantly correlated in a panel of 38 colorectal cancer cell lines. 19188603 2009
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Multi-marker phenotypes with CK20 and CDX2 negativity were more frequently found in mismatch repair-deficient than in mismatch repair-proficient colorectal cancer (19.3 vs 7.5% and 21.6 vs 6.7%, respectively; P<0.001). 18587323 2008
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Immunomagnetic CD45 depletion does not improve cytokeratin 20 RT-PCR in colorectal cancer. 17378731 2007
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE mRNA for carcinoembryonic antigen and cytokeratin 20 was identified by RT-PCR in blood from patients with colorectal cancer, before and after primary tumour resection. 17058316 2007
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These results suggest that detecting CEA/CK20 mRNA in tumor drainage blood by real-time RT-PCR has prognostic value in patients with colorectal cancer. 16391782 2006
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Quantitative estimation of CEA and CK20 expression in tumour tissue of colorectal cancer and its liver metastases with reverse transcription and real-time PCR. 16739357 2006
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Cytokeratin 20 reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction has potential as a clinically useful marker for staging colorectal cancer. 12576896 2003
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE To identify patients with an increased risk of tumor recurrence and evaluate the prognostic value of cytokeratin-20 (CK-20), we detected CK-20-positive cells in histopathologically tumor-free lymph nodes (pN0) of patients with colorectal cancer. 11844829 2002
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE CK20 expression was detected in nine of 30 and nine of 19 of the blood and bone marrow samples from patients with colorectal cancer, respectively. 12032226 2002
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In contrast, CK20 gene expression is not an established marker for the classification of tumours and the detection of disseminated cancer cells in colorectal cancer. 12237879 2002
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The detection of CK20 mRNA expression in lymph nodes is recommended to precisely determine tumor stage and postoperative adjuvant therapy for patients with colorectal cancer, and further studies should be done in future to confirm the findings. 12133290 2002
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Quantitatively, CK20 expression levels in colorectal cancer lymph nodes significantly exceeded the levels obtained in lymph nodes of extracolonic carcinomas (P < 0.05). 11705858 2001
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Keratin 20 is a specific marker of submicroscopic lymph node metastases in colorectal cancer: validation by K-RAS mutations. 10767714 2000
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Impact of cytokeratin-20 and carcinoembryonic antigen mRNA detection by RT-PCR in regional lymph nodes of patients with colorectal cancer. 11044357 2000
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Tissue samples from 24 patients with pancreatic cancer and from 41 patients with colorectal cancer were examined for CK 20 expression by Northern blot analysis, immunohistochemistry, and in situ hybridization. 10537351 1999
Malignant neoplasm of colon and/or rectum
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Using this method, we examined the bone marrow of 57 patients with colorectal cancer and detected increasing numbers of CK-20-positive samples, depending on the UICC stage. 8797868 1996