Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Here we present the results of a search for a region that exhibits linkage disequilibrium with the disorder, under the assumption that identification of such a region may provide an alternative method of narrowing down the location of WRN, the gene responsible for WS. 8037212 1994
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recombination events were detected between WRN and the HRG and FGFR1 genes, excluding them as candidates for the WRN gene. 8325642 1993
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR The gene responsible for WS (known as WRN) was identified by positional cloning. 8602509 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease CLINGEN The gene responsible for WS (known as WRN) was identified by positional cloning. 8602509 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND The gene responsible for WS (known as WRN) was identified by positional cloning. 8602509 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND The gene responsible for WS (known as WRN) was identified by positional cloning. 8602509 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE The gene responsible for WS (known as WRN) was identified by positional cloning. 8602509 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease CLINGEN Accelerated loss of telomeric repeats may not explain accelerated replicative decline of Werner syndrome cells. 8641691 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE Analysis of these markers in Werner syndrome subjects demonstrates that the candidate WRN gene is in a region of linkage disequilibrium. 8812476 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SGS1 gene is homologous to Escherichia coli RecQ and the human BLM and WRN proteins that are defective in the cancer-prone disorder Bloom's syndrome and the premature aging disorder Werner's syndrome, respectively. 8913739 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Homozygous and compound heterozygous mutations at the Werner syndrome locus. 8968742 1996
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Mutations in the consensus helicase domains of the Werner syndrome gene. Werner's Syndrome Collaborative Group. 9012406 1997
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results confirm that mutations in the WRN gene are responsible for WS. 9012406 1997
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease CLINGEN Analysis of helicase gene mutations in Japanese Werner's syndrome patients. 9048918 1997
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The correlation between mutations in the Werner's syndrome (WRN) gene and the haplotypes of surrounding markers was studied in Japanese patients. 9225981 1997
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Mutation and haplotype analyses of the Werner's syndrome gene based on its genomic structure: genetic epidemiology in the Japanese population. 9225981 1997
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in WRN result in Werner's syndrome, a disease with symptoms resembling premature aging. 9271578 1997
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Second, the monitoring of the telomere length of both normal and WRN cell strains during the culture period suggests that the WRN gene mutation causes abnormal dynamics of the telomere: (1) a significant proportion of WRN cell strains showed drastic shortening or lengthening of telomere lengths during cell passages compared with normal cell strains, and (2) WRN cell strains terminated their life-span at a wide range of telomere length (between 3.5 and 18.5 Kbp), whereas normal cell strains terminated within a narrow telomere length range (between 5.5 and 9 Kbp). 9365237 1997
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Affected and unaffected members of a Caucasian family with Werner syndrome were analyzed for mutations in the recently described Werner syndrome (WRN) gene and for their relevance to phenotypic expression of chromosomal instability and x-ray hypersensitivity. 9450180 1998
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE BLM- and WRN-bearing yeasts provide new useful models to investigate human BS and WS diseases. 9671747 1998
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE The activity of the WRN promoter was dramatically reduced in cells from WS patients. 9671808 1998
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Moreover, it is a homologue of the human Werner syndrome gene product WRN, a protein associated with premature ageing in humans. 9697700 1998
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results suggest that the hypersensitivity to 4NQO and the extensive deletion mutations observed in the WS cell line are caused by a defect that is secondary to the WRN gene mutation, possibly a repair gene defect that controls the phenotypes of hypersensitivity to carcinogen(s) and/or the extensive deletion mutations. 9823331 1998
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE The association of an exonuclease with WRN distinguishes it from other RecQ homologs and raises the possibility that the distinct phenotypic characteristics of WS may be due in part to a defective exonuclease. 9852073 1998
CUI: C0043119
Disease: Werner Syndrome
Werner Syndrome
1.000 Biomarker disease BEFREE We prepared several monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for the NH2- and COOH-terminal regions of the DNA helicase (WRN helicase) responsible for Werner's syndrome known as a premature aging disease. 9885239 1999