RARA, retinoic acid receptor alpha, 5914

N. diseases: 225; N. variants: 3
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Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE SP1 and RARα regulate AGAP2 expression in cancer. 30674964 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE <i>TBL1XR1-RARB</i> as an oncogenic protein exerts effects similar to those of <i>PML-RARA</i>, underpinning the importance of retinoic acid pathway alterations in the pathogenesis of APL.<b>Significance:</b> These findings report a novel and distinct genetic subtype of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) by illustrating that the majority of APL without RARA translocations harbor RARB translocations.<i>Cancer Res; 78(16); 4452-8.©2018 AACR</i>. 29921692 2018
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE A subset of patients were found to have an SE at <i>RARA</i>, which is predictive for response to SY-1425, a potent and selective RARα agonist, in preclinical models, forming the rationale for its clinical investigation in biomarker-selected patients.<i>Cancer Discov; 7(10); 1136-53. 28729405 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The authors' analysis led to the discovery of a novel <i>RARA</i> superenhancer found in a subset of patients with AML, rendering these leukemia cells highly sensitive to SY-1425, a highly potent RARA agonist able to induce myeloid differentiation in these high-expressing RARA AML subtypes.<i>Cancer Discov; 7(10); 1065-6. 28974530 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Abnormal expression and function of retinoic acid receptor α (RARα) have been reported to be associated with various cancers including acute promyelocytic leukemia and hepatocellular carcinoma. 28035062 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The aberrant expression of retinoic acid receptor-α (RARα) has been reported in various types of cancer. 29344234 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Here we show that anticancer and cancer-promoting RA actions in breast cancer have roots in a mechanism of mammary epithelial cell morphogenesis that involves both transcriptional (epigenetic) and non-transcriptional RARα (RARA) functions. 27894085 2016
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) driven by chimeric transcription factors encoding retinoic acid receptor alpha fusions is the paradigm of targeted cancer therapy, in which the application of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) treatments have markedly transformed this highly fatal cancer to a highly manageable disease. 25247321 2015
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In the randomised, controlled, multicentre, AML17 trial, eligible patients (aged ≥16 years) with acute promyelocytic leukaemia, confirmed by the presence of the PML-RARA transcript and without significant cardiac or pulmonary comorbidities or active malignancy, and who were not pregnant or breastfeeding, were enrolled from 81 UK hospitals and randomised 1:1 to receive treatment with ATRA and arsenic trioxide or ATRA and idarubicin. 26384238 2015
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARα) plays an essential role in the regulation of many biological processes, such as hematopoietic cell differentiation, while abnormal RARα function contributes to the pathogenesis of certain diseases including cancers, especially acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). 25886043 2015
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Indeed, mutant oncogenes (EGFR, HER2, RAS, MET, PML-RARα) are known to alter the expression of angiogenic and pro-inflammatory factors, as well as change the cancer cell coagulome, including the levels of tissue factor (TF) and other mediators (PAI-1, COX2). 22682129 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In addition, loss, accumulation, mutations or aberrant modifications of a specific RAR lead to uncontrolled proliferation and/or to differentiation block and thereby to cancer. 20970498 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Treatment of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) with all-trans retinoic acid and/or arsenic trioxide represents a paradigm in targeted cancer therapy because these drugs cause clinical remission by affecting the stability of the fusion oncoprotein promyelocytic leukemia (PML)/retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARA). 20574048 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE We hypothesized that specific activation of a single retinoic acid receptor-alpha (RARalpha), without direct and concurrent activation of RARbeta and gamma, will inhibit mammary tumor oncogenesis in murine models relevant to human cancer. 20453882 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Transcriptional repression of microRNA genes by PML-RARA increases expression of key cancer proteins in acute promyelocytic leukemia. 18941112 2009
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), characterized by a translocation between the promyelocytic leukemia gene (PML) on chromosome 15 and the retinoic acid receptor-alpha (RARalpha) gene on chromosome 17, has become a model for targeted treatment of cancer. 17706161 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE These results strongly suggest that XAB2 is a component of the RAR corepressor complex with an inhibitory effect on ATRA-induced cellular differentiation and that XAB2 plays a role in ATRA-mediated cellular differentiation as an important aspect of cancer therapy. 17283134 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Using a human mammary MCF7-derived AREc32 reporter cell line, we now report that all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), and other retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARalpha) agonists, markedly reduces the ability of Nrf2 to mediate induction of ARE-driven genes by cancer chemopreventive agents including the metabolite of butylated hydroxyanisole, tert-butylhydroquinone (tBHQ). 18048326 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE However, the restoration of RAR-beta2 expression inhibits tumor cell growth and suppresses cancer development. 16849557 2006
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In this issue of Cancer Cell, studies by Kwok et al. and Sternsdorf et al. indicate that the ability of the RARalpha oncoproteins to dimerize/multimerize is an essential feature required for the development of disease. 16473273 2006
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE RAR-beta2 mRNA expression was significantly reduced (i.e., lower in cancer than normal tissue) in 67% (18 of 27, P = 0.001) and RAR-beta(4) mRNA was increased in 52% (14 of 27, P = 0.054) of our esophageal cancer cases. 15824151 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a human cancer generated by a chromosomal translocation t(15;17) involving the promyelocytic leukemia (PML) and retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARalpha) genes. 15988048 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Immunoprecipitation/Western blot analysis showed that, although sumoylated and ubiquitinated RARalpha existed simultaneously in both cancer cell lines, ATRA exerted different regulatory effects on sumoylation and ubiquitination of RARalpha. 15171703 2004
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The RAR(alpha) gene has drawn particular attention because it is the common target in all chromosomal translocations in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a unique model in cancer research that responds to the effect of RA. 12032336 2002
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE RAR-beta2 expression is reduced in many malignant tumors, and we examined whether methylation of RAR-beta2 could be responsible for this silencing. 10814678 2000