Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The oncogenic transcription factor ERG is commonly induced by a typical TMPRSS2-ERG (TE) gene fusion in CaP and may affect innervation. 30241953 2020
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We report the association of elevated TMPRSS2 expression with increased PrCa risk (independent of a previously-reported risk variant) and with increased tumoral expression of the TMPRSS2:ERG fusion-oncogene in The Cancer Genome Atlas, suggesting a novel germline-somatic interaction mechanism. 31308362 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To prospectively examine the association between physical activity and risk of PCa defined by clinical features and TMPRSS2:ERG. 30301696 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Additionally, we revealed such genes for the <i>TMPRSS2-ERG</i> prostate cancer molecular subtype (<i>B4GALNT4</i>, <i>ASRGL1</i>, <i>MYBPC1</i>, <i>RGS11</i>, <i>SLC6A14</i>, <i>GALNT13</i>, and <i>ST6GALNAC1</i>). 31447885 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This study strongly suggests that targeting NO-cGMP signaling pathways may be a novel therapeutic strategy to treat PCa with TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion. 30718921 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Overexpression of ERG protein resulting from TMPRSS2:ERG rearrangement is highly specific for prostate cancer (PCa). 30900303 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recent advances in genomics and next-generation sequencing heralded the discovery of biomarkers such as the androgen receptor gene (<i>AR</i>) splice events, the <i>TMPRSS2:EGR</i> gene fusion, long noncoding RNA <i>MALAT-1</i> and <i>SCHLAP1</i> for PCa prognosis. 31194651 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE With the advances in deep sequencing technology, a series of new PCa biomarkers have been recently proposed to improve the diagnostic value of PSA, such as prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3), TMPRSS2-ETS fusion gene, microRNA, and other regulatory non-coding RNAs. 31421692 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We also assessed how these two markers correlated with the most common genetic alteration in prostate cancer: TMPRSS2 fusion to ERG (40-60% of carcinomas at the primary site), which places ERG expression under the control of the androgen-regulated TMPRSS2 gene, increasing expression. 30656528 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Prostate cancer (PCa) tumors harboring translocations of ETS family genes with the androgen responsive TMPRSS2 gene (ETS+ tumors) provide a robust biomarker for detecting PCa in approximately 70% of patients. 30367117 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Comparison between human umbilical vein endothelial cell and prostate cancer TMPRSS2 (transmembrane protease, serine-2):ERG fusion-positive human prostate epithelial cancer cell line (VCaP) cells revealed distinctive lineage-specific transcriptome and super-enhancer profiles. 30892142 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The purpose of this study was to first investigate the expression of seven different PC-related RNAs that included serine 2 (TMPRSS2): erythroblastosis virus E26 oncogene homolog (ERG) gene (TMPRSS2-ERG, T2E) fusion, alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase (AMACR), kallikrein related peptidase 3 (KLK3), androgen receptor (AR), prostate cancer specific antigen 3 (PCA3), and matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)-2 and 9. 30294801 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Only the second study of its kind for the African continent, we support a link between TMPRSS2-ERG status and prostate cancer racial health disparity beyond the borders of the United States. 31090091 2019
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Higher body mass index (BMI) at baseline (per 5 kg/m<sup>2</sup> HR 0.75; 95% CI, 0.61-0.91; <i>P</i><sub>heterogeneity</sub> = 0.02) and updated BMI over time (per 5 kg/m<sup>2</sup> HR 0.86; 95% CI, 0.74-1.00; <i>P</i><sub>heterogeneity</sub> = 0.07) were associated with a reduced risk of ERG-positive disease only.<b>Conclusions:</b> Our results indicate that anthropometrics may be uniquely associated with <i>TMPRSS2:ERG</i>-positive prostate cancer; taller height may be associated with greater risk, whereas obesity may be associated with lower risk.<b>Impact:</b> Our study provides strong rationale for further investigations of other prostate cancer risk factors that may be distinctly associated with subtypes. 29167279 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our study identifies 3p13 deletion as a highly heterogeneous alteration in prostate cancer preferentially developing at rather late stages of progression in <i>TMPRSS2:ERG</i> fusion-positive tumors. 30510458 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE TMPRSS2:ERG is the most frequent gene rearrangement identified in prostate cancer, but whether it is involved in prostate cancer bone metastases is largely unknown. 30201302 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The <i>TMPRSS2:ERG</i> fusion was expressed in 41% of samples, and the aggressive prostate cancer-associated long noncoding RNA <i>SChLAP1</i> was upregulated in 70%. 29453313 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Herein, we propose a "mix-to-go" colloidal strategy that utilizes the electrostatic attraction between negatively charged target sequences and positively charged silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) to induce aggregation of AgNPs to profile a panel of clinically validated urinary prostate cancer (PCa) RNA biomarkers ( TMPRSS2:ERG, T2:ERG; prostate cancer antigen 3, PCA3; and kallikrein-related peptidase 2, KLK2). 30260630 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Importantly, androgens exert a major role in PCa formation and progression and one of the hypothesized mechanism proposed has been linked to the chromosomal rearrangement of the androgen regulated gene TMPRSS2 with ERG. 28189568 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE The TMPRSS2:ERG (T:E) fusion gene is generally believed to be mainly regulated by the activated androgen receptor (AR) signaling in androgen-dependent prostate cancer. 30042415 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE TMPRSS2-ERG-positive and -negative prostate cancer specimens have distinct intratumoral androgen profiles, possibly due to activation of testosterone-independent DHT biosynthesis via the alternative pathway in TMPRSS2-ERG-positive tumors. 29773553 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE BRD4 Promotes DNA Repair and Mediates the Formation of TMPRSS2-ERG Gene Rearrangements in Prostate Cancer. 29346775 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Protocols for Studies on TMPRSS2/ERG in Prostate Cancer. 29786791 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oncogenic activation of the ETS-related gene (<i>ERG</i>) by recurrent gene fusions (predominantly TMPRSS2-ERG) is one of the most validated and prevalent genomic alterations present in early stages of prostate cancer. 29712692 2018
CUI: C0600139
Disease: Prostate carcinoma
Prostate carcinoma
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE According to the above-mentioned four pathways, the following markers of response were identified: transcription of the oncogene TMPRSS2:ERG, translation of Aurora-A, coding of β1C integrin gene, translation of Ki-67, expression of nerve growth factors TrkA and p75NGFR, anti-angiogenic activity and micro-vessel density were involved into suppression of proliferation; mRNA transcription of bcl-2, expression of cleaved caspase-3 and translation of insulin growth factor binding protein 3, into induction of apoptosis; expression of IL-7 gene, programmed death-ligand 1, and increase of intra-prostatic T-cell population were related to alteration of immune response; finally, expression of heat shock protein 27 and de-differentiation of PCa to neuroendocrine cells, influenced the onset of hormonal refractoriness. 29392925 2018