TYMS, thymidylate synthetase, 7298

N. diseases: 406; N. variants: 19
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This meta-analysis suggests that the TSER polymorphism in TS gene but not TS1494del6 polymorphism might be a protective factor for CRC among Caucasian populations. 24685603 2014
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Thymidylate synthase is associated with risk of colorectal cancer but not with gastric cancer; however, heterozygous SL (2R/3R) polymorphism is associated with risk of gastric cancer; moreover, the 5' tandem repeat polymorphism of thymidylate synthase gene was an independent predictor of the clinical treatment. 24415354 2014
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of major 5-FU metabolic enzymes, namely thymidylate synthase, dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, thymidine phosphorylase (TP), orotate phosphoribosyl transferase, and β-actin (control) was evaluated using the Danenberg Tumor Profile method. mRNA expression and other clinicopathological data were investigated with regard to CRC relapse. 25167895 2014
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our data suggest that TS and RFC1 polymorphisms are associated with CRC prognosis in Korean patients. 24100087 2014
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Conversely, high TS expression is unlikely to affect the clinical behavior of microsatellite unstable CRCs. 24332575 2014
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE TYMS effect on lymph node metastasis in CRC might serve as a potential biomarker for LNM and a prognostic factor in CRC. 23810585 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Proximal CRC tumors are characterized by higher TS expression genotypes than distal tumors, and are at significantly greater risk of early recurrence during the first 20 months after surgery. 23968134 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Results for other variants varied across individual studies; in our meta-analyses we observed some evidence for SHMT 1420C>T (rs1979277) ((odds ratio) OR = 0.85; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.73-1.00 for TT v. CC) and TYMS 5' 28 bp repeat (rs34743033) and CRC risk (OR = 0.84; 95% CI = 0.75-0.94 for 2R/3R v. 3R/3R and OR = 0.82; 95% CI = 0.69-0.98 for 2R/2R v. 3R/3R). 23401104 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Thymidylate synthetase is the major target of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), which is widely used for the treatment of gastric cancer (GC) and colorectal cancer (CRC). 23645036 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Using a dominant model for the variant allele, several SNPs were significantly associated with CRC including MTHFD1 rs8003379 (OR = 1.65; 95% CI = 1.00-2.73) and rs17824591 (OR = 1.98; 95% CI = 1.14-3.41) and the TYMS rs2853533 SNP (OR = 1.38; 95% CI = 1.05-1.80). 23893618 2013
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE 3R variant of thymidylate synthase 5'-untranslated enhanced region contributes to colorectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis. 22938428 2012
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Danenberg tumor profile method (DTP) was used in order to measure mRNA expression levels of thymidylate synthase (TYMS), dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPYD), and thymidine phosphorylase (TYMP) from 180 patients with colorectal cancer. 22593457 2012
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Polymorphisms in the thymidylate synthase gene and risk of colorectal cancer. 23098521 2012
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE High expression of TYMS and ERCC1 mRNA was associated with better in vitro chemosensitivity to 5-FU and oxaliplatin, respectively, in patients with colorectal cancer. 22110208 2011
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Thymidylate synthase (TS) expression levels appear to be related to response to 5-fluorouracil-(5-FU)-based chemotherapy in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. 21536130 2011
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In this study, TS mRNA expression was examined in primary tumor and normal tissues from 76 patients with high- risk stage II/III colorectal cancer by laser capture microdissection and polymerase chain reaction. 21824439 2011
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Variants in the dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and thymidylate synthase genes predict early toxicity of 5-fluorouracil in colorectal cancer patients. 20819423 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Molecular analysis of the polymorphisms of thymidylate synthase on cell-free circulating DNA in blood of patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma. 19998340 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE However, downregulation of TYMS by these miRNAs does not sensitize colorectal cancer cell lines to FU treatment. 20647341 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The TS genotype of 68 patients with colorectal cancer was determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis in peripheral blood mononuclear cells and tumour tissue. 20515563 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Chronic exposure of colorectal cancer cells in culture to fluoropyrimidine analogs induces thymidylate synthase and suppresses p53. A molecular explanation for the mechanism of 5-FU resistance. 20530421 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Based on these data, we investigated whether patient's gender and TS polymorphism exert an interactive effect on the clinical evolution of patients with advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) subjected to 5 fluorouracil (5FU)-based adjuvant chemotherapy. 20372856 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The impact of thymidylate synthase (TYMS) and UDP-glucoronosyltransferase 1A (UGT1A) germline polymorphisms on the outcome of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients treated with irinotecan plus 5-fluorouracil (irinotecan/5FU) is still controversial. 20628391 2010
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE To address this issue, we studied TSER genotype, TS expression, and activity with specific polymerase chain reaction and activity assays (TS catalytic activity and FdUMP binding) in normal (liver, mucosa) and malignant (primary tumor and liver metastasis) tissues from 83 patients with CRC. 19632929 2009
CUI: C0009402
Disease: Colorectal Carcinoma
Colorectal Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE MSI in five reference loci, MMR enzymes (hMSH2, hMSH6, hMLH1 and hPMS2), thymidylate synthase (TS) and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) expression were assessed in paraffin embedded tumor specimens, and associated with outcome in 340 consecutive patients completely resected for colorectal cancer stages II-IV and subsequently receiving adjuvant 5-fluorouracil therapy. 19154585 2009