Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Short GCG expansions in the PABP2 gene cause oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. 9462747 1998
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE As part of our effort to clone positionally the oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) gene, we constructed a YAC contig, a cosmid contig, and an EcoRI restriction map of the OPMD candidate region. 9782086 1998
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Short GCG expansions in the poly(A) binding protein 2 (PABP2) gene were identified recently as the molecular basis for OPMD in French-Canadians. 10508991 1999
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Short expansions of a (GCG)6 repeat located in exon 1 of the newly isolated PABP2 gene have been demonstrated in a large number of OPMD families. 10680791 2000
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Autosomal recessive OPMD is caused by a double dose of a (GCG)7 PABP2 allele. 10711989 1999
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy in a Japanese family with a short GCG expansion (GCG)(11) in PABP2 gene. 10734263 2000
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE These include lamin A/C in autosomal dominant Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, SMN in spinal muscular atrophy, SIX5 in myotonic dystrophy, calpain3 in type 2A limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, PABP2 in oculopharyngeal dystrophy, androgen receptor in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy and the ataxins in hereditary ataxias. 10838245 2000
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Positive immunoreaction for polyclonal PABP2 was confined to the intranuclear aggregates of muscle fibers exclusively in patients with OPMD. 11003790 2000
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE PABP2 polyalanine tract expansion causes intranuclear inclusions in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. 11079546 2000
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE We studied OPMD skeletal muscle and found that 1.0 to 10.0% of myocyte nuclei contained discreet PABP2 immunoreactive intranuclear inclusions, providing the first direct evidence of the relation between the proposed gene for OPMD and the pathology of OPMD. 11079550 2000
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Autosomal dominant OPMD is caused by a (GCG)8-13 repeat expansion in the polyadenylation binding protein 2 (PABP2) gene. 11087766 2000
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Short GCG repeat expansions in the PABP2 gene were recently shown to cause oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) in French-Canadian and Italian pedigrees. 11150975 2001
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE We conclude that PABP2 analysis is a reliable non-invasive diagnostic test for OPMD in the UK population. 11222452 2001
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Whereas PABP2 is expressed ubiquitously, the clinical and pathological features of OPMD patients are restricted to the skeletal muscle. 11371506 2001
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE To answer this question, we examined five patients with the clinical characteristics of oculopharyngodistal myopathy for GCG expansion in poly(A)-binding protein nuclear 1 gene (previously called poly(A)-binding protein 2), the causative gene defect for oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. 11595511 2001
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE These findings suggest that oligomerization of PABPN1 plays a crucial role in the formation of OPMD nuclear protein aggregation, while the expanded polyalanine stretch is necessary but not sufficient to induce OPMD protein aggregation, and that the nuclear protein aggregation might be toxic and cause cell death. 11689481 2001
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a rare myopathy caused by polyalanine triplet repeat expansion in the gene for poly(A) binding protein 2 (PABP2) and is found in isolated cohorts throughout the world. 11712939 2001
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We report the case of a 65-year-old man with a 15-year history of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) harboring a (GCG)11 mutation of the poly(A)-binding protein 2 (PABP2) gene. 11754191 2002
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE We analyzed PABP2 using polymerase chain reaction analysis and DNA sequencing in Japanese patients with pathologically confirmed OPMD, and found mutated (GCG)(6)GCA(GCG)(3)(GCA)(3)GCG and (GCG)(6)(GCA)(3)(GCG)(2)(GCA)(3)GCG alleles instead of the normal (GCG)(6)(GCA)(3)GCG allele. 11890856 2002
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The linkage region has been refined to a 24 cM region between D14S283 and D14S49 and mutations have been excluded in the PABP2 gene for oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy which lies within this region. 12062252 2002
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) due to a small duplication in the PABPN1 gene. 12673802 2003
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease CTD_human Diagnosis and treatment of oculopharyngeal dystrophy: a report of three cases from the same family. 12823221 2003