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 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The results of this study suggest that OPMD in the Mexican population is mostly due to (GCG)(11) or (GCG)(9) PABPN1 expanded alleles arising from two independent founder effect mutations. 18577654 2008
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is caused by polyalanine expansion in nuclear protein PABPN1 [poly(A) binding protein nuclear 1] and characterized by muscle degeneration. 18397876 2008
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 AlteredExpression disease LHGDN This raises the possibility that a compromise of the anti-apoptotic function of PABPN1 might contribute to the disease mechanism of OPMD. 18178579 2008
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE OPMD is caused by a small expansion of a short polyalanine tract in the poly (A) binding protein nuclear 1 protein (PABPN1). 17110089 2007
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations in the polyadenylate binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1) gene have been found to cause OPMD. 17138075 2007
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Autosomal-recessive OPMD with a homozygous (GCG)7 expansion of PABPN1 has only been described in two Canadian patients, who showed a comparably mild phenotype, suggesting that it is less severe than the dominant form. 17206657 2007
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Soluble expanded PABPN1 promotes cell death in oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. 17418585 2007
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease LHGDN Effect of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy-associated extension of seven alanines on the fibrillation properties of the N-terminal domain of PABPN1. 17229142 2007
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN An apparently sporadic case of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy: the first Italian report. 18175083 2007
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Detailed family history and clinical assessment of the OPMD patient were followed by mutation analysis of the PABPN1 gene by direct DNA sequencing and by our newly developed method, fluorescent PABPN1 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product (flPPP) method. 16481821 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a late-onset, autosomal dominant disease caused by the abnormal expansion of a polyalanine tract within the coding region of poly(A) binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1). 16530457 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutation of the PABPN1 in OPMD provokes premature senescence in dividing myoblasts, that may be due to intranuclear toxic aggregates. 17005403 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Mutation of the PABPN1 in OPMD provokes premature senescence in dividing myoblasts, that may be due to intranuclear toxic aggregates. 17005403 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is due to short elongations of a polyalanine tract in the poly(A) binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1) gene. 16619122 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE We have created a Drosophila model of OPMD that recapitulates the features of the human disorder: progressive muscle degeneration, with muscle defects proportional to the number of alanines in the tract, and formation of PABPN1 nuclear inclusions. 16642034 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is caused by expansion of a (GCN)10 to a (GCN)11-17 repeat coding for a polyalanine domain at the N-terminal part of poly(A) binding protein nuclear 1 (PABPN1). 16860991 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE The presence of PABPN1-containing intranuclear aggregates in skeletal muscle is unique for OPMD and is also observed in transgenic mouse and cell models for OPMD. 16319127 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A case was identified with typical symptoms of OPMD, negative for the repeat expansion mutation but with a missense mutation in PABPN1 close to the 3' end of the normal polyalanine codon repeat sequence. 16648376 2006
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy with PABPN1 mutation in a Chinese Malaysian woman. 15725589 2005
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD): analysis of the PABPN1 gene expansion sequence in 86 patients reveals 13 different expansion types and further evidence for unequal recombination as the mutational mechanism. 15645184 2005
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease LHGDN Our results indicate that the nuclear localization of mutant PABPN1 is crucial to OPMD pathogenesis. 16101680 2005
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is a late-onset disorder caused by a (GCG)n trinucleotide repeat expansion in the poly(A) binding protein nuclear-1 (PABPN1) gene, which in turn leads to an expanded polyalanine tract in the protein. 15755680 2005
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease CTD_human Nuclear inclusions formed by the aggregation of a polyalanine expansion mutant of the nuclear poly(A)-binding protein (PABPN1) is a hallmark of oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD). 16239242 2005
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results indicate that the nuclear localization of mutant PABPN1 is crucial to OPMD pathogenesis. 16101680 2005
CUI: C0270952
Disease: Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE OPMD is characterized by intranuclear inclusions (INIs) in skeletal muscle fibers, which contain PABPN1, molecular chaperones, ubiquitin, proteasome subunits, and poly(A)-mRNA. 15755682 2005