SOX2, SRY-box transcription factor 2, 6657

N. diseases: 503; N. variants: 23
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE No additional SOX2 loss-of-function mutations were detected in this cohort, showing that SOX2 is clearly not a major cause of intellectual disability without anophthalmia/microphthalmia. 27862890 2017
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE SOX2 anophthalmia syndrome is an uncommon autosomal dominant syndrome caused by mutations in the SOX2 gene and clinically characterized by severe eye malformations (anophthalmia/microphthalmia) and extraocular anomalies mainly involving brain, esophagus, and genitalia. 26250054 2015
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report a novel heterozygous mutation in the SOX2 gene in a male affected with congenital bilateral anophthalmia, hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism and growth hormone deficiency. 24211324 2014
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 Biomarker disease CTD_human The HMG-box transcription factor Sox2 plays a role throughout neurogenesis and also acts at other stages of development, as illustrated by the multiple organs affected in the anophthalmia syndrome caused by SOX2 mutations. 21532573 2011
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Heterozygous mutations in SOX2 are the commonest single-gene cause of anophthalmia/microphthalmia (A/M) and sometimes result in pituitary abnormalities. 21326281 2011
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in SOX2 do not appear to be a common cause of ocular defects other than anophthalmia/microphthalmia. 20454695 2010
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Seventy patients having non-syndromic forms of colobomatous microphthalmia (n=25), isolated microphthalmia (n=18), or anophthalmia (n=17), and syndromic forms of micro/anophthalmia (n=10) were included in this study after negative molecular screening for OTX2, RAX, SOX2, and CHX10 mutations. 21203406 2010
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Fifty-one patients suffering from nonsyndromic microphthalmia (n = 40) or anophthalmia (n = 11) were included in this study after negative molecular screening for SOX2, OTX2, RAX, and CHX10 mutations. 19397404 2009
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here, we describe a sporadic patient showing bilateral anophthalmia/microphthalmia and micropenis caused by a novel mutation (c.59_60insGG) in the SOX2 gene. 19254784 2009
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Novel SOX2 mutations and genotype-phenotype correlation in anophthalmia and microphthalmia. 19921648 2009
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Identification of novel mutations and sequence variants in the SOX2 and CHX10 genes in patients with anophthalmia/microphthalmia. 18385794 2008
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Individuals with SOX2 mutations have major eye abnormalities including anophthalmia, microphthalmia, and coloboma. 18987493 2008
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Thus it cannot be assumed that all SOX2 mutations in individuals with anophthalmia/microphthalmia are de novo. 18831064 2008
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Thus it cannot be assumed that all SOX2 mutations in individuals with anophthalmia/microphthalmia are de novo. 18831064 2008
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Heterozygous, de novo mutations in the transcription factor SOX2 are associated with bilateral anophthalmia or severe microphthalmia and hypopituitarism. 18285410 2008
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Duplications and polyalanine expansions within the transcription factor SOX3 have recently been described in association with infundibular hypoplasia, hypopituitarism and variable mental retardation, whilst mutations in SOX2 are associated with variable hypopituitarism in association with learning difficulties, oesophageal atresia and anophthalmia. 18174732 2007
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in SOX2 cause anophthalmia-esophageal-genital (AEG) syndrome. 16543359 2006
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report a heterozygous SOX2 gene mutation underlying the syndrome of anophthalmia/microphthalmia-esophageal atresia and demonstrate that this entity can be associated to considerable clinical variability as shown by the discordant ocular phenotype observed in monozygotic twin brothers carrying an SOX2 deletion. 16892407 2006
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Heterozygous de novo mutations in SOX2 have previously been associated with bilateral anophthalmia/microphthalmia, developmental delay, short stature, and male genital tract abnormalities. 16932809 2006
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our data show that mutations in SOX2 can cause not only anophthalmia, but also aplasia of the optic nerve, chiasm and optic tract, as well as modest bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, and global developmental delay, underscoring the importance of SOX2 in early human eye and brain development. 16145681 2005
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Heterozygous, de novo, loss-of-function mutations in SOX2 have been shown to cause bilateral anophthalmia. 15812812 2005
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Bilateral anophthalmia and brain malformations caused by a 20-bp deletion in the SOX2 gene. 16283891 2005
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We sequenced the SOX3 gene at Xq27 as a candidate gene for the X-linked anophthalmia based on the high homology of this gene to SOX2, a gene previously mutated in bilateral anophthlamia. 16114045 2005
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE This case confirms that haploinsufficiency for SOX2 plays a crucial role in human eye development and emphasizes the necessity of careful chromosomal analysis, including FISH analysis of the 3q region, in case of prenatal discovery of anophthalmia. 15503273 2004
CUI: C0003119
Disease: Anophthalmos
Anophthalmos 		0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Subsequent SOX2 mutation analysis identified de novo truncating mutations of SOX2 in 4 of 35 (11%) individuals with anophthalmia. 12612584 2003