Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 CausalMutation disease CGI
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results indicate that activating mutation of BRAF gene could be a potentially useful marker of prognosis of patients with advanced thyroid cancers. 12970315 2003
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE High prevalence of BRAF mutations in thyroid cancer: genetic evidence for constitutive activation of the RET/PTC-RAS-BRAF signaling pathway in papillary thyroid carcinoma. 12670889 2003
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We analysed mutations of BRAF and RAS genes in 100 cases of thyroid carcinoma to investigate genetic aberrations in the RAS/RAF/MEK/MAP kinase pathway. 14508525 2003
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Hypermethylation of the tumor suppressor gene RASSF1A and activating mutation of BRAF gene have been reported recently in thyroid cancers. 14996725 2004
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, the present study on the first Italian series of thyroid cancers shows a frequency of 38.3% of BRAF(V599E) in the classical variant of PTC, confirming the key role of this mutation in promoting tumourigenesis. 15272920 2004
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Understanding the genetic alterations underlying the development of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, such as mutational activation of BRAF, could help clarify its relationship with well-differentiated forms of thyroid carcinoma (ie follicular and papillary carcinoma) and could help select patients most likely to benefit from novel therapeutic strategies targeting BRAF. 15195111 2004
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The aim of the present study was to disclose the role of BRAF mutations in thyroid carcinoma development. 15126572 2004
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE BRAF mutations are not a major event in post-Chernobyl childhood thyroid carcinomas. 15356020 2004
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To investigate the differences between the characteristics of childhood and adult PTCs, we analyzed both BRAF(T1796A) and RAS mutations in 31 Japanese and 48 post-Chernobyl Ukrainian thyroid carcinomas. 15356022 2004
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Oncogenic AKAP9-BRAF fusion is a novel mechanism of MAPK pathway activation in thyroid cancer. 15630448 2005
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These data identify a relationship between the methylation-associated silencing of the tumor-suppressor gene SLC5A8 and the T1796A point mutation of the BRAF gene in the PTC-cf. subtype of thyroid carcinomas. 15687339 2005
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Clinical evaluation of B-RAF-targeting drugs is undergoing and trials in thyroid cancer are planned. 16940797 2006
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We also exploited the effect of BAY 43-9006 [N-(3-trifluoromethyl-4-chlorophenyl)-N'-(4-(2-methylcarbamoyl pyridin-4-yl)oxyphenyl)urea], a multikinase inhibitor able to inhibit RAF family kinases in a panel of six (V600E)BRAF-positive thyroid carcinoma cell lines and in nude mice bearing ARO cell xenografts.Statistical tests were two sided. 16533790 2006
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE B-RAF mutations in the etiopathogenesis, diagnosis, and prognosis of thyroid carcinomas. 16784975 2006
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease CTD_human Clinical evaluation of B-RAF-targeting drugs is undergoing and trials in thyroid cancer are planned. 16940797 2006
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The BRAF(V600E) mutation was present in 93 (83%) of 112 thyroid cancers. 17054470 2006
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The BRAF mutation may influence the expression patterns of molecular markers that are related to the development and progression of thyroid cancer. 16772349 2006
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE They also potently blocked MEK phosphorylation in human thyroid cancer cell lines with either RET/PTC1 (TPC1) or BRAF(V600E) (NPA, ARO, and FRO) mutations. 16551863 2006
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE These data unmask an epigenetically controlled FGFR2 signal that imposes precisely on the intragenically modified BRAF/MAPK pathway to modulate thyroid cancer behavior. 17545628 2007
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Inhibitory effects of the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase inhibitor CI-1040 on the proliferation and tumor growth of thyroid cancer cells with BRAF or RAS mutations. 17911174 2007
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE We also compared the effect of a B-Raf small inhibitory RNA construct and the B-Raf kinase inhibitor AAL881 on both B-Raf wild-type and mutant thyroid carcinoma cell lines. 17363500 2007
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In summary, our results indicate that constitutive signalling of the MAP kinase cascade contributes to the development of thyroid cancer promoted by activated RAS and BRAF oncogenes and that this occurs, at least in part, by compromising the inhibitory function of p27. 18032931 2007
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE BRAF V600E mutation status was determined in 347 tumor samples from 314 patients with thyroid cancer (245 with conventional papillary thyroid cancer, 73 with follicular thyroid cancer, and 29 with the follicular variant of papillary thyroid cancer). 17717450 2007
CUI: C0549473
Disease: Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid carcinoma
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Oncogenic proteins such as Ret/PTC, Ras and BRAF can induce NF-kappaB activation making it an important change in thyroid cancer. 17891249 2007