AURKA, aurora kinase A, 6790

N. diseases: 245; N. variants: 15
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 GenomicAlterations group CGI
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE STK15 is considered a potential cancer susceptibility gene owing to its functions in normal cell mitosis. 15271853 2004
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The findings from this study are consistent with the evidence from invitro and in vivo experiments, implicating an etiologic role of the STK15 gene in human breast cancer, and provide evidence for the modifying effects of genetic background on human cancer risk. 15598762 2004
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE These results confirm that the STK15 T+91A variant is a low penetrance cancer susceptibility allele affecting multiple cancer types, and provide genetic evidence from large-scale human population studies that genetic stability at the chromosome level is an important determinant of cancer susceptibility. 15802297 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE STK15/Aurora-A is a serine/threonine kinase essential for chromosome segregation and cytokinesis, and is considered to be a cancer susceptibility gene in mice and humans. 15867347 2005
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE This analysis predicts that cancer cells manifesting a stem cell-like expression profile of a death-from-cancer signature would exhibit the following features: a concomitantly increased expression of certain members of inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family (Survivin and XIAP); activation of mitotic spindle check point proteins (BUB1, BUB3, KNTC2, Mad2, PLK1, PLK4, STK6/Aurora A); and elevated levels of certain cell cycle control/marker proteins (CCNB1, CCNB2, CCND1, CCNA2, CDC2, CDC25, Ki67, USP22). 16760651 2006
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Aurora kinase A (AURKA/STK15/BTAK) encodes a serine/threonine kinase associated with chromosomal distribution and its up-regulation induces chromosomal instability, thereby leading to aneuploidy and cell transformation in several types of cancer. 16951231 2006
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We analysed the distribution of the functionally important T91A SNP in the STK15 gene in a cohort of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients and compared it to the distribution in a control group without malignancies. 17143471 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE The Aurora-A/STK15 gene encodes a kinase that is frequently amplified in cancer. 17308110 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The AURKA oncogene is associated with abnormal chromosome segregation and aneuploidy and predisposition to cancer. 17627006 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Higher BTAK expression was found in ovarian cancer cells compared to ovaries without cancer but with known BRCA1/2 mutation or strong family history (P<0.001), and expression levels of BTAK and p53 were directly correlated (r=0.306; P<0.001). 17673924 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE The Aurora-A/STK15 gene encodes a kinase that is frequently amplified in cancer. 17935280 2007
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Aurora kinase A has been demonstrated to be involved in the malignant progression of many types of cancer including prostate cancer, we therefore hypothesized that Aurora kinase A might work as a valuable target for prostate cancer treatment. 18404163 2008
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Aurora kinase A is a mitotic kinase commonly upregulated in cancer that causes regression of the primary cilium by promoting histone deacetylase-dependent tubulin depolymerization of the ciliary axoneme. 20864688 2010
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE To gain a greater understanding of the potential of the Aurora kinase A inhibitor MLN8237 in the treatment of pediatric malignancies. 21448591 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Quantitative real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry analysis on matched cancer and corresponding normal tissues from surgically resected non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) have been performed aiming to explore the expression levels of AURKA gene. 21718475 2011
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE As a molecular mechanism, we demonstrate that PTPRD interacts with aurora kinase A (AURKA), an oncogenic protein that is over-expressed in multiple forms of cancer, including neuroblastoma. 22305495 2012
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE By using the AGS, FLO-1, and OE33 UGC cell lines, which have constitutive AURKA overexpression and variable tumor protein 53 (p53) status, significantly enhanced inhibition of cancer cell survival was observed with alisertib and docetaxel treatment in combination (P < .001), compared with single-agent treatments. 22972611 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Furthermore, we find that AURKA activity is critical to the propagation and self-renewal of sphere-enriched MPNST cancer stem-like cells. 23328114 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Overexpression of AURKA is common in cancer, resulting in acquisition of alternate non-mitotic functions. 23334327 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE A significant association was observed between malignancy as defined by Weiss score ≥3 and higher AURKA (2.0-fold, P = 0.01), AURKB (7.0-fold, P = 0.007), and BUBR1 (5.8-fold, P = 0.007) gene expression, and between unfavorable event (death or relapse) and higher expression of AURKA (6.0-fold, P = 0.034) and AURKB (17-fold, P = 0.013). 23788275 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Numerous microarray-based gene expression studies performed on several types of solid tumors revealed significant changes in key genes involved in progression and regulation of the cell cycle, including AURKA that is known to be overexpressed in many types of human malignancies. 23925655 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Clinical studies with polyploidy inducers, such as aurora kinase A inhibitors, are under way for a wide variety of malignancies, whereas trials specifically for AMKL and PMF are in development. 23963861 2013
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE A significant effect of the STK15 rs2273535 polymorphism on cancer risk was found (AA vs. TT: OR=1.13, 95%CI=1.01-1.26, Pheterogeneity<0.001; AA vs. 24252226 2014
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE In summary, this meta-analysis demonstrates that the STK15 F31I polymorphism may be a risk factor for cancer. 24349361 2013