TCF7L2, transcription factor 7 like 2, 6934

N. diseases: 257; N. variants: 70
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE These results suggest that Tcf-4 is an attractive potential therapeutic target for colorectal cancer therapy. 23029137 2012
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease CTD_human We found a colorectal carcinoma cell line harboring the fusion gene to be dependent on VTI1A-TCF7L2 for anchorage-independent growth using RNA interference-mediated knockdown. 21892161 2011
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Eleven rearrangements encode predicted in-frame fusion proteins, including a fusion of VTI1A and TCF7L2 found in 3 out of 97 colorectal cancers. 21892161 2011
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE The overexpression of some proproliferative and antiapoptotic genes, such as survivin, telomerase catalytic subunit (hTERT), integrin-linked kinase (ILK), and regulatory factors c-MYB and Tcf-4, has been implicated in the development and progression of several human malignancies including CRC. 20027603 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here, we report that TNIK is an activating kinase for TCF4 and essential for colorectal cancer growth. 20530691 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations of BAX (G8) and TCF-4 (A9), which are common in MSI-positive colorectal cancer, occurred at rates of 22.7 and 0%, respectively, which suggests that the MSI target gene may differ between endometrial and colorectal cancers. 19787250 2009
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE We report that DKK4 is frequently down-regulated in colorectal cancer cell lines with deregulated beta-catenin/Tcf-4 and in primary colorectal cancers. 19059704 2009
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In summary, the marginal association of the TCF7L2 SNP with CRC might be due to chance, but warrants further laboratory and epidemiological investigation. 18478343 2008
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We describe a growth-promoting transcriptional program that is likely activated in CRC tumors with compromised TCF7L2 function. 18621708 2008
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Nuclear proteins associated with the beta-catenin-TCF-4 complex may include feasible targets for molecular therapy against colorectal cancer. 18177486 2008
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In contrast, claudin-7 was overexpressed in areas with high Tcf-4 target gene levels in CRC samples. 18519685 2008
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Of interest, we described a frequent TCF-4 frameshift mutation in mismatch-repair deficient colorectal cancers (MSI-H cancers) that leads to the selective loss of TCF-4 isoforms with CtBP binding abilities. 16547505 2006
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE This is the first description of the downregulation of HOXB13 in CRC and its mechanism of action is mediated through the regulation of TCF4 protein stability. 15928669 2005
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE APC, beta-Catenin and hTCF-4; an unholy trinity in the genesis of colorectal cancer. 12633551 2003
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE T-cell factor-4 frameshift mutations occur frequently in human microsatellite instability-high colorectal carcinomas but do not contribute to carcinogenesis. 12036905 2002
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE The Tcf-4 transcription factor gene was reported to be one of the targets of microsatellite instability (MSI) in colorectal cancers in with MSI. 11528255 2001
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Using HT-29 CRC cell lines having inducible wild-type APC (wt-APC) or transfected dominant-negative TCF-4, we show that wt-APC down-regulates survivin expression via APC/beta-catenin/TCF-4 signaling. 11751382 2001
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Frequent frameshift mutations of the TCF-4 gene in colorectal cancers with microsatellite instability. 10485457 1999
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.700 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT