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
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE MTC can be sporadic (75%) or familial (25%) and the 2 forms are distinguished by RET mutations analysis. 30717909 2019
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Twenty-Five Years Experience on RET Genetic Screening on Hereditary MTC: An Update on The Prevalence of Germline RET Mutations. 31510104 2019
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This cohort study refers to patients who were diagnosed with familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and underwent RET genetic testing in Cyprus between years 2002 and 2017. 29396759 2018
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE The remaining two were RET-negative with familial medullary thyroid cancer (FMTC). 29336779 2018
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Epigenetic regulation of RET receptor tyrosine kinase and non-coding RNAs in MTC. 28315378 2018
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE When grouped by mutational risk (highest; high; moderate-high; low-moderate; polymorphism), the age-related progression of MTC was significant for all four categories of RET mutations, which differed significantly across and within the three histopathological groups. 29656518 2018
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Expression analysis found an increase of RET transcript in p.Cys630=;p.Cys634Arg patient compared with that found in 7 MTCs harboring p.Cys634 mutations. 30321177 2018
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Together these findings identify germline ESR2 mutation as a novel cause of familial MTC/CCH and provide important insights into a novel mechanism causing increased RET expression in tumourigenesis. 26945007 2016
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE M918V RET mutation causes familial medullary thyroid carcinoma: study of 8 affected kindreds. 27807060 2016
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Overall, 131 patients underwent surgery for RET-negative MTC. 27271930 2016
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Polyphen-2 Hum Div/Var may provide additional clinical data to help distinguish benign from MEN2/familial medullary thyroid carcinoma-causing RET variants as well as less aggressive phenotypes (ATA A) from more aggressive ones (ATA B-C). 25733075 2015
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Characterization of V804M-mutated RET proto-oncogene associated with familial medullary thyroid cancer, report of the largest Turkish family. 25501606 2015
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the RET gene are responsible for hereditary medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) and may vary between ethnic groups. 25624014 2015
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this study, we investigated a Chinese family with FMTC/CA and found a recurrent RET c.2671T>G (p.S891A) mutation in six of 17 family members. 26356818 2015
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Prophylactic thyroidectomy can be curative for patients with hereditary medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) caused by RET proto-oncogene mutations. 24882762 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Characterization of wild-type and mutated RET proto- oncogene associated with familial medullary thyroid cancer. 24716929 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE RET gene mutations (genotype and phenotype) of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma. 24699901 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The rare intracellular RET mutation p.S891A in a Chinese Han family with familial medullary thyroid carcinoma. 24845513 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE MTC is primarily associated with mutations in the rearranged during transfection (RET) proto-oncogene. 24449662 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Rearranged during transfection (RET) mutations are well-known genetic events in sporadic and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (FMTC). 25163725 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Systematic prophylactic total thyroidectomy in patients with a RET proto-oncogene mutation allowed early diagnosis of MTC in one-third of cases. 24993783 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Of the seven RET wild-type MTCs, four cases (57.1 %) harbored a RAS mutation: three in HRAS (all Q61R) and one in KRAS (G12R). 24828033 2014
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The effective management of patients with MEN2A, MEN2A, and FMTC depends on an understanding of the variable behavior of disease expression in patients with a specific RET mutation. 23744408 2013
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Twenty years ago, the groundbreaking discovery that rearranged during transfection (RET) mutations underlie multiple endocrine neoplasia 2 (MEN2) and familial medullary thyroid cancer (FMTC) ushered in the era of personalized medicine. 23211574 2013
Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE MTC samples with the C634 RET mutation exhibited a higher expression of VEGFR3 and KIT than the M918T RET-mutated and non-mutated RET tumor samples (P=0.005 and P=0.007 respectively) and a lower expression of VEGFR1 (P=0.04). 23780998 2013