Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The frequency of the uncommon TNF-alpha -308 allele 2 was found to be decreased in patients with UC compared with HC (allele frequency of allele 2 in UC patients 0-15 versus 0.25 in HC, P=0.044). 8608636 1996
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE It was found that LP macrophages in Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) display high levels of NF-kappa B DNA-binding activity accompanied by an increased production of interleukin (IL)-1, IL-6, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha. 9928378 1998
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To determine potential associations of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra), tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha), and tumour necrosis factor beta (TNF beta) gene polymorphisms with ulcerative colitis or subsets of ulcerative colitis in a Spanish population. 10321759 1999
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE As part of a large, controlled, prospective study to correlate genetic markers with clinical phenotypes, tumor necrosis factor microsatellite alleles at five loci (a, b, c, d, and e) were determined from genomic DNA by polymerase chain reaction in 32 patients with a clinical and histopathologic diagnosis of ulcerative colitis who underwent ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for medically unresponsive disease. 10344681 1999
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The TNF-2 and LT alpha-2 haplotypes were associated with higher TNF alpha production in CD patients, and the TNF-4 haplotype was associated with lower TNF alpha production in UC patients. 11196710 2000
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This study suggests that one of the genes responsible for UC may be the TNF gene, or an adjacent gene, and that TNFRSF1B gene polymorphisms contribute greatly to the increased onset risk of CD and to the disease behavior. 11904678 2002
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN This study suggests that one of the genes responsible for UC may be the TNF gene, or an adjacent gene, and that TNFRSF1B gene polymorphisms contribute greatly to the increased onset risk of CD and to the disease behavior. 11904678 2002
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Further genetic associations of TNF(-857C) with IBD sub-phenotypes were seen for ulcerative colitis and for Crohn's disease, but only in patients not carrying common NOD2 mutations. 12019209 2002
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE 119 healthy, unrelated controls, 95 patients with Crohn's disease and 93 patients with ulcerative colitis were genotyped for the (G to A) -308 TNF-alpha promoter polymorphism on chromosome 6, the codon 497 EGFR polymorphism on chromosome 7 and the TaqI polymorphism of the VDR gene on chromosome 12. 12428072 2002
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease LHGDN [Expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and nuclear factor-kappa B in childhood ulcerative colitis]. 14731353 2003
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Reporter gene assays with a construct comprising a luciferase gene driven by the TNF-alpha promoter revealed that isolates from Crohn's disease patients induced a stronger activation of the TNF-alpha gene than isolates from ulcerative colitis patients. 15103488 2004
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Variation was observed between the ulcerative colitis study group and the control population for the TNF-alpha-308 polymorphism (p= 0.0135). 15223609 2004
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In conclusion, this clinical differential pattern of association distinguished in two neighboring loci within the MHC region suggest an independent role of the TNF locus in the genetic susceptibility to develop UC. 15325795 2004
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Diallyl trisulfide inhibits tumor necrosis factor-alpha expression in inflammed mucosa of ulcerative colitis. 16110831 2005
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE A formal interaction test showed that TNF-857 is associated equally with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. 16534418 2006
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Carrier frequency of TNF-857T between CD and controls (36% vs. 40%; P = 0.556; OR: 1.18, 95% CI 0.74-1.88), or between UC and controls (41% vs. 37%; P = 0.743; OR: 0.85, 95% CI 0.45-1.62) did not differ significantly. 16611251 2006
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE No differences were noted between TNF-alpha 308 A polymorphism and clinical characteristics in UC. 16707968 2006
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We investigate the association between TNF promoter polymorphisms and susceptibility to ulcerative colitis (UC) in the Chinese Han ethnic population. 16863613 2006
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Treatment of the two major forms of IBD, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, involves the reduction of inflammation with toxic immunosuppressive drugs or blocking of the pro-inflammatory effects of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) with antibodies. 17207256 2007
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The frequency of the -308A allele of the TNF-alpha gene was significantly increased in both patients with CD (15%; odds ratio [OR] = 2.79; P < 0.01) and patients with UC (11%; OR = 1.96; P < 0.003) compared with controls (6%). 17255827 2007
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE In common with peripheral chronic inflammatory diseases such a rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis, evidence now exists for the involvement of inflammatory cytokines, for example tumour necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukins (IL), in neurological disorders. 17347265 2007
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Genotyping was performed in 114 patients with IBD (22 Crohn's disease [CD] and 92 ulcerative colitis [UC]) in TNF-alpha and 105 (20 CD and 85 UC) in GSTM1 and T1 and 164 healthy controls using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and multiplex PCR methods. 17565649 2007
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease LHGDN Furthermore, the expression of MMP-1 and TNF-alpha in the ulcerated area was significantly higher than that in the inflamed area of patients with UC (0.9797 +/- 0.1433 vs 0.6746 +/- 0.0373, 0.8669 +/- 0.0746 vs 0.5227 +/- 0.0435, P < 0.05). 17990358 2007
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 Biomarker disease LHGDN Because UC patients are at increased risk for developing colorectal cancer (CRC), we investigated if there was an association between SNPs in the promoter of the TNF-alpha gene and UC-CRC. 18289203 2008
CUI: C0009324
Disease: Ulcerative Colitis
Ulcerative Colitis
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Because UC patients are at increased risk for developing colorectal cancer (CRC), we investigated if there was an association between SNPs in the promoter of the TNF-alpha gene and UC-CRC. 18289203 2008