Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE New, highly selective inhibitors of BRAF and MEK1/2 have shown promise in clinical trials, including in previously intractable diseases such as melanoma. 22562245 2013
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Novel ATP-competitive MEK inhibitor E6201 is effective against vemurafenib-resistant melanoma harboring the MEK1-C121S mutation in a preclinical model. 24448821 2014
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE One such mutation, MEK1(P124L), was identified in a resistant metastatic focus that emerged in a melanoma patient treated with AZD6244. 19915144 2009
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our data confirming that MEK2(C125S), but not the synonymous MEK1(C121S) protein, confers resistance to combination therapy highlight the functional differences between these kinases and the preponderance of MEK2 mutations in combination therapy-resistant melanomas. 25452114 2014
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Pharmacodynamic effects and mechanisms of resistance to vemurafenib in patients with metastatic melanoma. 23569304 2013
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Pharmacodynamic effects and mechanisms of resistance to vemurafenib in patients with metastatic melanoma. 23569304 2013
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE phase II and III clinical trials demonstrated modest anti- tumor activity of Binimetinib (MEK162) - a potent allosteric inhibitor of MEK1 and MEK2- in patients with advanced NRAS mutant melanoma. 28919996 2017
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Phase II trial of MEK inhibitor selumetinib (AZD6244, ARRY-142886) in patients with BRAFV600E/K-mutated melanoma. 23444215 2013
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE PI3'-kinase inhibition forestalls the onset of MEK1/2 inhibitor resistance in BRAF-mutated melanoma. 25472943 2015
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Preexisting MEK1 exon 3 mutations in V600E/KBRAF melanomas do not confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors. 22588879 2012
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Prospective enterprise-level molecular genotyping of a cohort of cancer patients. 25157968 2014
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Prospective enterprise-level molecular genotyping of a cohort of cancer patients. 25157968 2014
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent clinical and therapeutic success with RAF and MEK1/2 inhibitors has revolutionized the existing treatment schemes for previously incurable cancers like melanomas. 31662208 2019
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Screening a larger cohort of individuals with melanoma revealed the presence of recurring somatic MAP2K1 and MAP2K2 mutations, which occurred at an overall frequency of 8%. 22197931 2011
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease CTD_human Screening a larger cohort of individuals with melanoma revealed the presence of recurring somatic MAP2K1 and MAP2K2 mutations, which occurred at an overall frequency of 8%. 22197931 2011
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Screening a larger cohort of individuals with melanoma revealed the presence of recurring somatic MAP2K1 and MAP2K2 mutations, which occurred at an overall frequency of 8%. 22197931 2011
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Single treatment of BRAF mutant melanoma cell lines with vemurafenib or dabrafenib (BRAF inhibitors) alone or in combination with trametinib (MEK1/2 inhibitor) resulted in overexpression of Mcl-1. 26497853 2015
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease LHGDN Surprisingly, MEK1 and ERK1/2 activities were restored in integrin alphav-negative melanoma cells by suppression of p53, whereas concomitant block of MEK1 induced apoptosis. 15557124 2004
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Taken together, our data indicate that preexisting MEK1(P124) mutations are associated with a reduced response to BRAF inhibitor therapy and identify a subset of patients with BRAF-mutant melanoma likely to benefit from combination therapies involving MEK or ERK inhibitors. 25370473 2015
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Targeting BMK1 Impairs the Drug Resistance to Combined Inhibition of BRAF and MEK1/2 in Melanoma. 28387310 2017
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE The mitogen-activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (MEK1/2) inhibitor trametinib has shown promising therapeutic effects on melanoma, but its efficacy on colorectal cancer (CRC) is limited. 28756770 2017
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE The purpose of this study was to determine the response rate (RR) for the selective, allosteric MEK1/MEK2 inhibitor trametinib (GSK1120212), in patients with metastatic BRAF-mutant melanoma. 23248257 2013
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This MEK1(T55delins) (RT) mutation could be traced back to a fraction of the pre-treatment lesion and not only provided protection against vemurafenib but also promoted local invasion of transplanted melanomas. 26105199 2015
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Thus, activating MEK1 exon 3 mutations identified herein and concurrent with V600E/KBRAF do not cause BRAFi resistance in melanoma. 22588879 2012
CUI: C0025202
Disease: melanoma
melanoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE To compare the efficacy and tolerability of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP)/extracellular signal-regulated (ERK) kinase (MEK) 1/2 inhibitor selumetinib versus temozolomide in chemotherapy-naive patients with unresectable stage III/IV melanoma. 22048237 2012