Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings also suggest that MTHFD2 and HIF-2α form a positive feedforward loop in RCC, promoting metabolic reprograming and tumor growth. 31289360 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE A small molecule inhibitor that binds to HIF-2α and blocks dimerization with HIF-1β is in clinical trials for the treatment of renal cell carcinoma. 30625281 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Taken together, the findings of this study suggest that the protein levels of HIF2A and VEGFA in tumor tissue may serve as independent prognostic factors in ccRCC. ccRCC patients with increased intratumoral HIF2A and VEGFA protein levels, and unaltered VHL protein levels, are not likely to benefit from sunitinib treatment following nephrectomy; however, this hypothesis requires verification by large‑scale replication studies. 31268155 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We demonstrated that ccRCC patients with HIF-2α<sup>high</sup> tumors exhibited reduced overall survival (p = 0.025) and recurrence-free survival (p < 0.001). 30758643 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our study confirmed sex-specific associations for two known RCC risk loci at 14q24.2 (DPF3) and 2p21(EPAS1). 31231134 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In this review, we briefly discuss the role of HIF-2α in ccRCC and provide insight into recent advances in the discovery, development, and mode of action of HIF-2α allosteric inhibitors. 31541711 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Everolimus resistance in clear cell renal cell carcinoma: miRNA-101 and HIF-2α as molecular triggers? 31267758 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The drug blocks the HIF2α transcription factor and is being tested in a phase I/II trial for clear cell renal cell carcinoma. 31186237 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Future study is warranted to determine if iron deprivation using chelator drugs provides an effective therapeutic strategy for targeting HIF-2α and suppressing tumor progression in ccRCC patients. 30553971 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE These findings support testing CDK4/6 inhibitors as treatments for ccRCC, alone and in combination with HIF-2α inhibitors. 31575731 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Our first HIF-2α inhibitor PT2385 demonstrated promising proof of concept clinical activity in heavily pretreated advanced ccRCC patients. 31282155 2019
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We demonstrate that functional delivery of a HIF2α-specific RNAi trigger resulted in HIF2α gene silencing and subsequent tumor growth inhibition and degeneration in an established orthotopic ccRCC xenograft model.<i></i>. 29079709 2018
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Hypoxia-inducible factors, HIF-1α and HIF-2α, are expressed in the majority of ccRCC. 30144808 2018
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Design and Activity of Specific Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-2α (HIF-2α) Inhibitors for the Treatment of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Discovery of Clinical Candidate ( S)-3-((2,2-Difluoro-1-hydroxy-7-(methylsulfonyl)-2,3-dihydro-1 H-inden-4-yl)oxy)-5-fluorobenzonitrile (PT2385). 30289716 2018
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Intratumoral expression of HIF-2α, rather than HIF-1α, significantly predicted an unfavorable prognosis in ccRCC (log-rank, P = 0.038). 29357946 2018
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE VHL is a major tumour suppressor in ccRCC and loss of VHL leads to stabilisation of hypoxia inducible factors HIF-1α and HIF-2α. 29872221 2018
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE To explore the HIF-1α, HIF-2α and c-Myc baseline expression as potential predictors of sunitinib outcome as well as the effectiveness and safety with sunitinib in patients with metastatic ccRCC in routine clinical practice. 29033582 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In kidney cancer, HIF-2α is believed to be the most important driver for development and progression of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), highlighting the therapeutic potential of HIF-2 antagonists in this disease. 28217462 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Two recent independent studies published in <i>Nature</i> show robust responses of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) cell lines, preclinical ccRCC xenograft models and, remarkably, a patient with progressive ccRCC despite receiving multiple lines of treatment, to the long-awaited, recently developed inhibitors of hypoxia-inducible factor 2-alpha (HIF2α). 28667082 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE HIF2A germline-mutation-induced polycythemia in a patient with VHL-associated renal-cell carcinoma. 29172931 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Hypoxia-inducible factor 2alpha (HIF-2α) antagonists -PT2385, and PT2399 have been shown to have promising results in the management of clear cell renal cell carcinoma by targeting the HIF-2α pathway in recent and ongoing clinical trials (PT2799). 28946040 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Herein, we summarize the molecular background behind the use of HIF-2α inhibitors in ccRCC and give an overview of the development of new agents in this setting. 28259286 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE PHGDH as a Key Enzyme for Serine Biosynthesis in HIF2α-Targeting Therapy for Renal Cell Carcinoma. 28951458 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE We found that the anti-angiogenic TKI sunitinib disrupted the balance between HIF-1α and HIF-2α in RCCs and led to a protective effect on HUVECs against sunitinib treatment when cultured with conditioned medium. 28572533 2017
Conventional (Clear Cell) Renal Cell Carcinoma
0.400 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A subset of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) tumors exhibit a HIF1A gene mutation, yielding two ccRCC tumor types, H1H2 type expressing both HIF1α and HIF2α, and H2 type expressing HIF2α, but not functional HIF1α protein. 28092369 2017