RET, ret proto-oncogene, 5979

N. diseases: 607; N. variants: 162
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A prophylactic thyroidectomy was performed in three cases (5.4%) without clinical signs of thyroid tumor with diagnosed RET gene mutation. 24794415 2014
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE All fusions identified were between RET and KIF5B genes, and no RET fusions to CCDC6 or NCOA4 genes, characteristic for thyroid cancer, were identified in the irradiated lung cells. 24346100 2014
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Somatic point mutations and translocations of the REarranged during Transfection (RET) proto-oncogene are frequently found in thyroid cancer. 25330015 2014
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Central role of RET in thyroid cancer. 24296167 2013
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE RET, a transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase and a receptor for the glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor family ligands, was one of the first oncogenes to be identified, and has been shown to be an oncogene in thyroid cancer and pheochromocytoma. 22751117 2013
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Exons 10, 11, 13, and 16 were sequenced in all, and all exons of RET in 43 of the subjects, including those with thyroid cancer, RET mutations, suspicious clinical findings, and familial or long-segment disease. 23744765 2013
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Ponatinib (AP24534) is a novel potent inhibitor of oncogenic RET mutants associated with thyroid cancer. 23526464 2013
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE CCDC6 was originally identified in chimeric genes as caused by chromosomal translocation involving the RET protooncogene in some thyroid tumors. 23145146 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Nevertheless, an extensive molecular analysis that included all codons was prompted by the diagnosis of thyroid neoplasm in a patient's sister, and identified the rare intracellular RET p.Ser891Ala mutation. 23295303 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE We did a comprehensive screen for 548 known and putative fusion genes in 27 samples of thyroid tumors and three positive controls-one thyroid cancer cell line (TPC-1) and two PTCs with known CCDC6-RET (alias RET/PTC1) fusion gene, using this microarray. 22961909 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Germline RET proto-oncogene mutations are the genetic causes of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 and a strong genotype-phenotype correlation exists, particularly between a specific RET codon mutation and the (a) age-related onset and (b) thyroid tumor progression, from C-cell hyperplasia to medullary thyroid carcinoma and, ultimately, to nodal metastases. 22584703 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Using human thyroid cancer-derived cell lines [harboring rearranged during transfection (RET)/PTC, v-RAF murine sarcoma viral oncogene homolog B (BRAF), or rat sarcoma virus oncogene (RAS) alterations], we determined that IL-6/gp130/JAK signaling is responsible for STAT3 activation. 22891351 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE The rearranged during transfection/papillary thyroid carcinoma (RET/PTC) tyrosine kinase is an oncogene implicated in the tumorigenesis of thyroid cancer. 21947652 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR AZD1480 blocks growth and tumorigenesis of RET- activated thyroid cancer cell lines. 23056499 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Further, we found that the frequency of FRET-SE between four pairs of genes that form rearrangements in thyroid cancer was 5% for RET and CCDC6, 4% for RET and NCOA4, 2% for BRAF and AKAP9, and 2% for NTRK1 and TPR. 22887574 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Vandetanib in patients with locally advanced or metastatic medullary thyroid cancer: a randomized, double-blind phase III trial. 22025146 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Vandetanib in patients with locally advanced or metastatic medullary thyroid cancer: a randomized, double-blind phase III trial. 22025146 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR AZD1480 blocks growth and tumorigenesis of RET- activated thyroid cancer cell lines. 23056499 2012
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR The effects of four different tyrosine kinase inhibitors on medullary and papillary thyroid cancer cells. 21470995 2011
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations of RET are associated to a subset of colorectal cancer and are commonly found in hereditary and sporadic thyroid cancer. 21110809 2011
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We tested the effects of a highly selective B-Raf(V600E) inhibitor, PLX4720, on proliferation, migration, and invasion both in human thyroid cancer cell lines (8505c(B-RafV600E) and TPC-1(RET/PTC-1 and wild-type B-Raf)) and in primary human normal thyroid (NT) follicular cells engineered with or without B-Raf(V600E). 21355020 2011
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Targeted therapies for thyroid tumors. 21455200 2011
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR The effects of four different tyrosine kinase inhibitors on medullary and papillary thyroid cancer cells. 21470995 2011
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Common mutations found in thyroid cancer are point mutation of the BRAF and RAS genes as well as RET/PTC and PAX8/PPARγ chromosomal rearrangements. 21878896 2011
CUI: C0040136
Disease: Thyroid Neoplasm
Thyroid Neoplasm
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE RET/PTC is a characteristic genetic alteration frequently found in radiation-induced thyroid cancer in human populations. 22136268 2011