PROX1, prospero homeobox 1, 5629

N. diseases: 114; N. variants: 10
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.460 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE PROX1 gene CC genotype as a major determinant of early onset of type 2 diabetes in slavic study participants from Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron MR Controlled Evaluation study. 28060188 2017
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.460 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Further adjusting age, gender and BMI as confounders found PROX1 rs340874 was associated with type 2 diabetes (p = 0.0391). 21103350 2010
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.460 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE HHEX and PROX1 are genetic loci associated with diabetes mellitus type 2. 27684496 2017
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.460 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We identified a significant association of a SNP of FADS1 and a SNP near PROX1 with T2D in a Japanese population. 22992776 2012
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.460 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility PROX1 Gene Variants Are Associated with Postprandial Plasma Metabolites Profile in Non-Diabetic Men. 31010169 2019
Diabetes Mellitus, Non-Insulin-Dependent
0.460 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE All together, we propose that reduced expression of PROX1 by cis-regulatory variants results in altered β-cell insulin secretion and thereby confers susceptibility to type 2 diabetes. 23274905 2013
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Prox1 expression was significantly associated with local progression of the tumor (P = 0.0023), clinical stage (P<0.0001), lymphovessel density (LVD) (P<0.0001), nodal metastasis (P<0.0001), and worse prognosis (P<0.0001). 24647631 2014
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE These data identify PROX1 as a key regulator of the transcriptional network contributing to metastases outgrowth in colorectal cancer. 25242332 2014
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Patients with higher PROX1 expression (n = 26) had increased nuclear accumulation of HIF1α (p = 0.004) and more advanced metastasis, both lymph node (N factor; p = 0.09) and hematogenous (M factor; p = 0.04), than those with lower PROX1 expression (n = 91). 26310281 2015
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Our transcriptional analysis of <i>PROX1-</i>depleted follicular thyroid carcinoma cells followed by functional and phenotypical analyses provide, for the first time, evidence that PROX1 plays an important role in the metastasis of thyroid cancer cells by regulating genes involved in focal adhesion and cytoskeleton organization in tumour cells. 31060342 2019
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE A strong correlation between PROX1 mRNA amplification and regional lymph node metastasis supports its implications in cancer spreading and metastasis and sustains its utility, not only as a lymphatic marker, but also as a potential tumor marker in various tumor types, including gastric cancer. 24982352 2014
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE In addition, PROX1 expression was correlated with perineural invasion, local regional recurrence, and distant metastasis of patients with SACC (P < .05), and no significant association was found between PROX1 expression and other clinicopathologic parameters. 29406257 2018
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE PROX1 is a critical factor that promotes HCC metastasis. 23505027 2013
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.380 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Together, our data provides a new insight into mechanism that DAB2IP regulates EMT and PCa metastasis, especially points out the potential roles of its downstream PROX1/HIF1α signaling in a unique non-skeletal metastasis of PCa. 27476001 2016
CUI: C0028754
Disease: Obesity
Obesity
0.210 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Combined linkage and association analyses identify a novel locus for obesity near PROX1 in Asians. 23818313 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Patients with high PROX1 expression had a cancer-specific 5-year survival of 65.6% (95% CI 52.7-78.5), compared to 37.1% (95% CI 30.2-44.0) for those with low expression (p = 0.004, log-rank test). 28854215 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Thus, our data suggests that PROX1 and Notch suppress each other and that PROX1-mediated suppression of Notch mediates its stem cell function in colorectal cancer.<b>Significance:</b> These findings address the role of the PROX1 homeobox factor as a downstream effector of Wnt/β-catenin singling in colorectal cancer stem cells and show that PROX1 inhibits the Notch pathway and helps to enforce the stem cell phenotype and inhibit differentiation.<i>Cancer Res; 78(20); 5820-32.©2018 AACR</i>. 30154153 2018
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Together, these findings highlight the prognostic value of PROX1 and its role as a regulator of glioblastoma gene expression subtypes, intratumoral heterogeneity, proliferation, and cell-cycle control.<b>Significance:</b> These findings demonstrate the role and prognostic value of PROX1 in glioblastomas; low PROX1 levels correlate with a mesenchymal gene expression subtype and shorter survival in glioblastoma tumors.<i>Cancer Res; 78(20); 5901-16.©2018 AACR</i>. 30135192 2018
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE However, the detailed role and function of Prox1 and FOXC2 in cancer remains controversial. 24647631 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE PROX1 is a negative regulator of interferon-gamma expression in T cells and also mitigates the advancement of vascular neoplasms, such as Kaposi sarcoma, a common AIDS-defining malignancy. 20064070 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The genes involved in angiogenesis were selected by RNA-seq, and the impact of PROX1 on vascularization potential was investigated using human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) cultured in conditioned medium collected from FTC- or SCT-derived cancer cell lines after PROX1 silencing. 31717665 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE A strong correlation between PROX1 mRNA amplification and regional lymph node metastasis supports its implications in cancer spreading and metastasis and sustains its utility, not only as a lymphatic marker, but also as a potential tumor marker in various tumor types, including gastric cancer. 24982352 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Here, we show that PROX1 suppresses the transcription of MMP14, a metalloprotease involved in angiogenesis and cancer invasion, by binding and suppressing the activity of MMP14 promoter. 29934628 2018
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Furthermore, we linked long-term proliferative capacity in a patient-derived model of CRC to a lowly abundant PROX1-positive cancer stem cell subtype. 31451731 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In addition, PROX1 has been ascribed suppressive as well as oncogenic roles in several human cancers, including brain tumors. 27626492 2016