BCL6, BCL6 transcription repressor, 604

N. diseases: 309; N. variants: 3
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE BCL6 Evolved to Enable Stress Tolerance in Vertebrates and Is Broadly Required by Cancer Cells to Adapt to Stress. 30777872 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE This reprogramming of aged HSCe globally targets developmental and cancer pathways that are comparably altered in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) of all ages, encompassing loss of 4,646 active enhancers, 3,091 bivalent promoters, and deregulation of several epigenetic modifiers and key hematopoietic transcription factors, such as KLF6, BCL6, and RUNX3. 31085557 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE B‑cell CLL/lymphoma 6 member B (BCL6B), a BCL6‑homologous gene, has been reported to be a tumor suppressor that is silenced in a variety of human cancers, including colorectal cancer (CRC). 29393377 2018
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The transcription factor BCL6 is a known driver of oncogenesis in lymphoid malignancies, including diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL). 28930682 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Hence, there is a compelling case to accelerate the development of BCL6-targeted therapies for translation to the clinical setting.<i>Clin Cancer Res; 23(4); 885-93.©2016 AACR</i>. 27881582 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Integrative genomics and functional studies of BCL6 in primary FL cells point toward a novel mechanism whereby BCL6 repression of <i>NOTCH2</i> drives the survival and growth of FL cells as well as GC B cells, which are the FL cell of origin.<i>Cancer Discov; 7(5); 506-21. 28232365 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Aberrant regulation of BCL6 plays crucial oncogenic roles in various malignant tumors; howbeit, the function of BCL6 in tumorigenesis of ovarian cancer remains unclear. 28671040 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Despite the importance of Bcl6 in both immunity and cancer, little is known about how other extrinsic factors regulate Bcl6 in B cells. 28875978 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE We conclude that BCL6 is a new therapeutic target in NSCLC and combination therapy that targets multiple vulnerabilities (STAT3 and BCL6) downstream of common oncogenes, and tumor suppressors may provide a potent way to defeat intratumor heterogeneity.<i>Cancer Res; 77(11); 3070-81.©2017 AACR</i>. 28377453 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE As a result, we conclude that the BCL6 hypothesis in DLBCL cancer remains unproven. 28485934 2017
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) protein, an evolutionarily conserved zinc finger transcription factor, showed to be highly expressed in various human cancers in addition to malignancies in the lymphoid system. 24917186 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE He had a CD10 and BCL2-positive, BCL6-negative B-cell malignancy with loss of multiple B-cell markers including surface immunoglobulin. 23959583 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE B-cell lymphomas with concurrent translocations of MYC and BCL2 or BCL6, also known as "double-hit" lymphomas (DHL), are rare malignancies characterized by aggressive clinical behavior and poor prognosis. 23341189 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE ZBTB24 belongs to a large family of transcriptional repressors that include members, such as BCL6 and PATZ1, with prominent regulatory roles in hematopoietic development and malignancy. 21596365 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE In this issue of Cancer Cell, Cerchietti et al. identify and characterize a specific, small-molecule inhibitor of BCL6, an oncogenic transcriptional repressor, that has high clinical promise for treating diffuse large B cell lymphoma. 20385356 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE BCL6 gene rearrangement is the most frequent chromosomal abnormality in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a malignancy characterized by genetic heterogeneity and wide variability in clinical outcome. 19797725 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE The STAT5 responsive region of the BCL6 gene is mutated frequently in B-cell lymphomas, suggesting that loss of the repressive effects of STAT5 on BCL6 might contribute to the pathogenesis of these cancers. 16819511 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE Thus, this study is the first to show that BCL-6 oncogene activation plays a role in cancers other than lymphomas. 14654791 2003
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE In B cell lymphomas, structural alterations of the BCL-6 promoter region, including chromosome translocation and somatic hypermutation, represent the most frequent genetic lesions associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, especially of diffuse large cell lymphoma, a malignancy often derived from germinal centre (GC) B cells. 12469325 2002
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Mutations of BCL-6 proto-oncogene, a zinc finger transcription factor implicated in lymphoma development, represent a histogenetic marker of B cell transit through the germinal center (GC) and occur frequently in B cell malignancies derived from GC or post-GC B cells. 10803511 2000
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE It has been shown that the 5' noncoding region of the BCL-6 proto-oncogene is affected by mutations in normal GC B-lymphocytes and in lymphoid malignancies displaying GC/post-GC phenotype. 11059755 2000
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Accordingly, an expanded survey in lymphoid malignancies showed that BCL-6 mutations are restricted to B cell tumors displaying GC or post-GC phenotype and carrying mutated Ig variable heavy chain sequences. 9751748 1998
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Hence, the expression of LAZ3/BCL6 does not correlate to malignancy, but reflects the origin of B cells from the germinal centers. 9096701 1997
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.100 Biomarker group BEFREE A novel proto-oncogene, bcl-6, coding for a zinc-finger transcription factor, was cloned from 3q27 breakpoints and shown to be structurally altered in 33% (13/39) of DLLC samples studied, but not in other types of lymphoid malignancies. 8172819 1994