FOLR1, folate receptor alpha, 2348

N. diseases: 174; N. variants: 8
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 GeneticVariation phenotype BEFREE We report a case of cerebral folate transport deficiency due to a novel homozygous mutation in the FOLR1 gene, in an effort to clarify phenotype-genotype correlation in this newly identified neurometabolic disorder. 20857335 2010
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 GeneticVariation phenotype BEFREE Thus, our studies suggest that different clinical severities do not necessarily correlate with residual function of folate receptor alpha mutants and indicate that additional factors contribute to the clinical phenotype in cerebral folate transport deficiency. 22586289 2012
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE While the FRα defect is a disorder of brain-specific folate transport accompanied with cerebral folate deficiency (CFD) causing progressive neurological symptoms, LAMM syndrome is a solely malformative condition, with normal physical growth and cognitive development. 21752681 2011
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Folate receptor alpha defect causes cerebral folate transport deficiency: a treatable neurodegenerative disorder associated with disturbed myelin metabolism. 19732866 2009
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Cerebral folate deficiency (CFD) syndromes are defined as neuro-psychiatric conditions with low CSF folate and attributed to different causes such as autoantibodies against the folate receptor-alpha (FR) protein that can block folate transport across the choroid plexus, FOLR1 gene mutations or mitochondrial disorders. 29661558 2018
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 GeneticVariation phenotype BEFREE We present the cases of two sisters with cerebral folate transport deficiency caused by mutation in the folate receptor 1 (FOLR1) gene (MIM *136430). 27328863 2016
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 GeneticVariation phenotype BEFREE Known defects of folate transport are deficiency of the proton coupled folate transporter, associated with systemic as well as cerebral folate deficiency, and deficiency of the folate receptor alpha, leading to an isolated cerebral folate deficiency associated with intractable seizures, developmental delay and/or regression, progressive ataxia and choreoathetoid movement disorders. 30916789 2019
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 GeneticVariation phenotype BEFREE A diagnosis of cerebral folate deficiency was confirmed by a homozygous c.466T>G (p.W156G) mutation in FOLR1, coupled with extremely low cerebrospinal fluid levels of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate. 27743887 2017
Neurodegeneration Due To Cerebral Folate Transport Deficiency
0.790 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Folate receptor alpha (FRα) autoantibodies have been associated with fetal abnormalities and cerebral folate deficiency-related developmental disorders. 27646260 2017
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Several experimental studies in mice and human epidemiological and genetics studies have suggested that folate receptor abnormalities are involved in a portion of human NTDs, although the solo defect of FOLR1 did not cause NTD. 28244241 2017
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE This study, though preliminary, provides the first genetic association between molecular variations of the FRalpha gene and NTDs and suggests that this gene can act as a risk factor for human NTD. 11102926 2000
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Furthermore, doubly heterozygous mouse embryos lacking one copy each of Shroom3 and Folr1 exhibit a low rate of neural tube defects and also have lower levels of activated myosin light chain and MLCK. 30670450 2019
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Using a Midwestern NTD population consisting of probands, parents, and siblings from Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska, we analyzed a range of candidate genes, including 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), folate receptors-alpha (FOLR1; hereafter abbreviated "FR-alpha") and -beta (FOLR2; hereafter, "FR-beta"), methionine synthase (hereinafter, "MS"), T, the human homolog of the murine Brachyury gene, and the paired-box homeotic gene 3 (PAX3), for association with NTDs. 10332959 1999
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Folate binding protein 1 (Folr1) knockout mice with low maternal folate concentrations have been shown to be excellent animal models for human folate-responsive neural tube defects (NTDs). 16256389 2006
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Folr1 knockdown in neural plate cells only is necessary and sufficient to induce NTDs. 28255006 2017
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE It is unlikely that the beneficial effects of maternal folate supplementation in preventing NTDs acts through a mechanism involving pharmacological correction of a variant form of folate receptor alpha. 9545095 1998
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In NTDs, there was an adaptive up-regulation of folate transporters mainly reduced folate carrier (p < 0.001) and folate receptor alpha (p < 0.001). 30941645 2019
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Folates and FOLR1 are established modifiers of risk for neural tube defects, and binding data indicates DTG is a partial antagonist of FOLR1. 31259764 2019
CUI: C0027794
Disease: Neural Tube Defects
Neural Tube Defects
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We suggest that T-DMRs participate in the regulation of expression of the FOLR1 and RFC1 genes, that the RFC1 80G > A polymorphism exerts a gene-nutrition interaction on DNA methylation in the RFC1 gene, and that this interaction appears to be most prominent in NTD-affected births and in subjects with high tHcy concentrations. 23417011 2013
CUI: C0919267
Disease: ovarian neoplasm
ovarian neoplasm
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Folate binding protein(FBP) is an immunogenic protein over-expressed in endometrial(EC) and ovarian cancer(OC). 27852036 2017
CUI: C0919267
Disease: ovarian neoplasm
ovarian neoplasm
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Folate-binding protein is a marker for ovarian cancer. 1717147 1991
CUI: C0919267
Disease: ovarian neoplasm
ovarian neoplasm
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE The objective of this study was to measure the levels of FOLR1 and Dkk-3 in the serum of patients with ovarian cancer, benign gynecological conditions and healthy women. 23528302 2013
CUI: C0919267
Disease: ovarian neoplasm
ovarian neoplasm
0.400 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE (2) FOLR1 expression was decreased in platinum drug-resistant ovarian tumors compared to sensitive tumors (P < 0.01). 29433550 2018
CUI: C0919267
Disease: ovarian neoplasm
ovarian neoplasm
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our previous identification of degenerate HLA-class II epitopes from human FR led to the development of a broad coverage epitope pool potentially useful in augmenting antigen-specific immune responses in most patients.<b>Patients and Methods:</b> We conducted a phase I clinical trial testing safety and immunogenicity of this vaccine, enrolling patients with ovarian cancer or breast cancer who completed conventional treatment and who showed no evidence of disease. 29545464 2018
CUI: C0919267
Disease: ovarian neoplasm
ovarian neoplasm
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE A Single-Agent Dual-Specificity Targeting of FOLR1 and DR5 as an Effective Strategy for Ovarian Cancer. 30107179 2018