Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Besides TNF, the IL-23/IL-17 axis is emerging as an important inflammatory pathway in SpA, as a SNP in the IL-23R locus has been associated with developing AS, mice overexpressing IL-23 develop SpA-like features and IL-17 blockade has been shown to be efficacious for AS patients in a phase II trial. 23969080 2014
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The -308.1 polymorphism in the promoter region of the tumor necrosis factor gene is associated with ankylosing spondylitis independent of HLA-B27. 10332976 1999
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results suggest that TNF gene promoter polymorphisms at positions -238 and -308 could have a small influence on AS susceptibility and prognosis. 19758203 2009
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Using the Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS), we assessed the prevalence of ID in ax-SpA patients treated with TNFα inhibitors (TNFi). 28880727 2018
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE ORs of various comparisons indicate that there is no association between TNF-α -238, -308 polymorphisms and AS susceptibility in the overall population and in the subgroup of Asian and non-Asian descent. 22661255 2013
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In addition, the IL-10-819  C/T and TNF-α-857 C/T polymorphisms also confer susceptibility to AS, especially in Asian population. 30322951 2018
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE No relationship was found between TNF-alpha promoter 238 polymorphisms and AS in HLA-b27+ population. 20535510 2010
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To investigate the influence of patient characteristics on the course of spinal radiographic progression in a large prospective longitudinal cohort study of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients treated long-term with TNF-α inhibitors. 28640818 2017
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE No differences were found in IMT values at the level of internal carotid between the 2 populations.The significantly lower carotid atherosclerosis found in patients with AS treated with TNF antagonists than in healthy controls shows the important complementary role of this treatment in reducing vascular disease progression probably by decreasing inflammation. 29979389 2018
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A great deal of evidence has shown that non-human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 genes may play crucial roles in the aetiology of ankylosing spondylitis (AS), but there is little evidence of a relationship with tumour necrosis factor (TNF)alpha gene variation. 17472990 2007
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Runt-related transcription factor 3 (RUNX3), tumor necrosis factor family member-associated NF-κB activator binding kinase 1 binding protein (TBKBP1), and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator 1 beta (PPARGC1B) have recently been found to be associated with susceptibility to AS in patients of Western European descent. 25494292 2015
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Lack of association of TNF-alpha promoter polymorphisms with ankylosing spondylitis: a meta-analysis. 19720680 2009
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A total of 54 patients with RA, 10 with PsA and 22 with AS were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction for the -308 TNFalpha promoter polymorphism. 16720636 2007
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This protective effect of variant promoter alleles could be related to differences in TNFalpha production or could reflect the association of different B27 haplotypes with ankylosing spondylitis. 9704649 1998
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN A novel gene variation of TNFalpha associated with ankylosing spondylitis: a reconfirmed study. 17472990 2007
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Secukinumab, an interleukin-17A (IL-17A) antagonist, is the first non-TNF alpha inhibitor agent licensed for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), which opens up a new era of alternative cytokine targets beyond TNF. 30576610 2019
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report the clinical cases of two patients affected by a CNS demyelinating disease and ankylosing spondylitis who were successfully treated with secukinumab, providing additional evidence of the feasibility of this therapeutic option when the use of TNF inhibitors is discouraged by challenging comorbidities. 31398658 2019
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results indicate that the polymorphism variation in the TNF-alpha promoter -238.2(A) influences disease susceptibility in B27 negative primary AS but had no effect in our B27 positive AS population. 11409121 2001
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE TNF-α rs1800629 A/G, NLRP1 rs878329 C/G and NLRP1 rs6502867 C/T polymorphisms were not associated with risk of RA or AS. 24065540 2013
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE But there is a lack of association of the TNF-alpha-376G/A and -646G/A polymorphisms with ankylosing spondylitis. 23831259 2013
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE HLA-B27 subtypes and tumor necrosis factor alpha promoter region polymorphism in Iranian patients with ankylosing spondylitis. 19318316 2009
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Low T cell production of TNFalpha and IFNgamma in ankylosing spondylitis: its relation to HLA-B27 and influence of the TNF-308 gene polymorphism. 11114280 2001
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results confirm previous observations in the southern German population of association between TNF promoter region polymorphisms and AS, but the lack of association in the English population suggests that these polymorphisms themselves are unlikely to be directly involved. 11196671 2000
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Because of the localization, in the proximity of the HLA-B locus, and the biological activities of TNF-alpha, we investigated the association between AS and a single base polymorphism located at position -308 of the TNF-alpha gene. 8033419 1994
CUI: C0038013
Disease: Ankylosing spondylitis
Ankylosing spondylitis
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha promoter polymorphisms in ankylosing spondylitis: comment on the article by Ji et al. 24643503 2014