Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In this study, we detected a known and a novel mutation in ABCG8 in a Chinese patient with sitosterolaemia. 25056759 2014
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT We identified seven different mutations in two adjacent, oppositely oriented genes that encode new members of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family (six mutations in ABCG8 and one in ABCG5) in nine patients with sitosterolemia. 11099417 2000
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This family study broadens the spectrum of the ABCG5/ABCG8 mutations causing sitosterolaemia and helps highlight the correlations between such gene mutations, biochemical phenotype and the development of cardiovascular disease. 17976197 2007
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The gene(s) causing sitosterolaemia was mapped to the STSL locus on human chromosome 2p21, and mutations in either of the two genes that comprise this locus, ABCG5 or ABCG8, cause this disease. 18441155 2008
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We identified seven different mutations in two adjacent, oppositely oriented genes that encode new members of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-binding cassette (ABC) transporter family (six mutations in ABCG8 and one in ABCG5) in nine patients with sitosterolemia. 11099417 2000
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Background Sitosterolemia (STSL) is a recessive inherited disorder caused by pathogenic variants in the ABCG5 and ABCG8 genes. 28696550 2017
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Phytosterolaemia (sitosterolaemia) is a rare autosomal recessive condition caused by mutations on the ABCG5 and ABCG8 gut transporter proteins. 17785700 2007
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Mutations in the ABCG8 gene are associated with sitosterolaemia in the homozygous form and xanthelasmas in the heterozygous form. 28739549 2017
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Inactivating mutations on either the ABCG5 or ABCG8 subunit cause Sitosterolemia, a rare genetic disorder. 31654053 2019
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Phytosterolemia (sitosterolemia) is a rare autosomal recessive sterol storage disease caused by mutations in either of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) binding cassette transporter genes; (ABC) G5 or ABCG8, leading to impaired elimination of plant sterols and stanols, with their increased accumulation in the blood and tissues. 25941971 2015
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE All showed mutations in the ABCG5 and ABCG8 previously linked to phytosterolaemia. 16029460 2005
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT Two genes that map to the STSL locus cause sitosterolemia: genomic structure and spectrum of mutations involving sterolin-1 and sterolin-2, encoded by ABCG5 and ABCG8, respectively. 11452359 2001
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Interestingly, mutation of ABCG5 and or ABCG8 genes in man causes sitosterolemia, a rare genetic disease characterized by massive absorption of plant sterols and premature arteriosclerosis. 12911117 2003
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the ABCG8 gene are associated with sitosterolaemia in the homozygous form and xanthelasmas in the heterozygous form. 28739549 2017
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in two tandem ABC genes, ABCG5 and ABCG8, encoding sterolin-1 and -2, respectively, are now known to be mutant in sitosterolemia. 11264985 2001
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Phytosterolemia on the island of Kosrae: founder effect for a novel ABCG8 mutation results in high carrier rate and increased plasma plant sterol levels. 15210841 2004
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This study expands the spectrum of the ABCG5 and ABCG8 mutations that cause sitosterolemia. 11668628 2001
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Two genes, ABCG5 and ABCG8, comprise the STSL and mutations in either cause sitosterolemia. 16507104 2006
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A female subject with each mutation was symptomatic with coronary atherosclerosis: a 5-year-old ABCG8 S107X homozygote and a 75-year-old ABCG5 exon 3 I/D homozygote; these represent the extreme ends of the spectrum of vascular involvement in sitosterolemia. 15375183 2004
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The mutations in ABCG5 and ABCG8 genes, encoding sterolin-1 and -2, respectively, are responsible for phytosterolemia. 19111681 2009
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT We conclude that the majority of the molecular defects in G5 and G8 that cause sitosterolemia impair transport of the sterol transporter to the cell surface. 15054092 2004
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Identification of the genetic basis responsible for causing sitosterolaemia, characterized by plant sterol accumulation, led to the identification of two half-transporters (ABCG5 and ABCG8) that normally efflux plant sterols (and cholesterol) into the intestinal and biliary lumen for faecal excretion.4. 18668442 2008
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Sitosterolemia is a recessive disorder characterized by high plasma levels of cholesterol and plant sterols due to mutations in the ABCG5 or the ABCG8 gene, leading to a loss of function of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) heterodimer transporter G5-G8. 28521186 2017
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We present the first case of sitosterolemia caused by double heterozygous mutations in adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette subfamily G members 5 and 8 (ABCG5 and ABCG8) genes. 30007774 2019
CUI: C0342907
Disease: Sitosterolemia
Sitosterolemia
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE Sitosterolemia induced in Abcg5- and Abcg8-deficient mice fed a high plant sterol diet resulted in accumulation of free sterols in platelet plasma membranes, leading to hyperactivatable platelets characterized by constitutive binding of fibrinogen to its αIIbβ3 integrin receptor, internalization of the αIIbβ3 complex, generation of platelet-derived microparticles, and changes in the quantity and subcellular localization of filamin. 23926302 2013