MSH6, mutS homolog 6, 2956

N. diseases: 296; N. variants: 642
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results suggest that the mutation of hMSH6 is responsible for tumorigenesis in minor groups of suspected HNPCC patients. 9929971 1999
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The story of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer is one of chance meetings, the selfless sharing of information, perseverance in the face of adversity, meticulous scientific documentation, and ultimate vindication by a scientific process that yielded molecular genetic evidence through the identification of the culprit mutations (hMSH2, hMLH1, hPMS2, and hMSH6). 10211513 1999
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Germline mutations in a polycytosine repeat of the hMSH6 gene in Korean hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. 9929971 1999
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE To evaluate the respective involvement of the various MMR genes in typical and incomplete HNPCC syndromes, we have performed an analysis of the hMLH1, hMSH2, hPMS1, hPMS2, and hMSH6 genes in a large series of French kindreds (n=75) with colorectal tumors and/or aggregation of extracolonic cancers belonging to the HNPCC spectrum. 10480359 1999
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease CLINGEN This may explain the rarity of MSH6 and absence of MSH3 germline mutations in HNPCC families. 10545954 1999
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Recently, a link has been established between hMSH6 mutations and 'atypical' hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) with an increased incidence of endometrial cancers. 10753784 2000
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Mismatch recognition and DNA-dependent stimulation of the ATPase activity of hMutSalpha is abolished by a single mutation in the hMSH6 subunit. 10938287 2000
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR Sequence analysis of the mismatch repair gene hMSH6 in the germline of patients with familial and sporadic colorectal cancer. 10699937 2000
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE By sequence analysis of the entire coding region of MSH6, three putative missense mutations were identified in patients with atypical family histories that do not meet HNPCC criteria. 11153917 2000
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Germline mutations in hMSH6 and hPMS2 in HNPCC families are much less common. 10911905 2000
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease CTD_human A role for MLH3 in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. 11586295 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Asymmetric recognition of DNA local distortion. Structure-based functional studies of eukaryotic Msh2-Msh6. 11641390 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Germline mutations in five mismatch repair genes (MLH1, MSH2, PMS1, PMS2, and MSH6) have been associated with HNPCC susceptibility. 11317354 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease CLINGEN MSH6 and MSH3 are rarely involved in genetic predisposition to nonpolypotic colon cancer. 11245474 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR Germline and somatic mutations in hMSH6 and hMSH3 in gastrointestinal cancers of the microsatellite mutator phenotype. 11470537 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR p53, CHK2, and CHK1 genes in Finnish families with Li-Fraumeni syndrome: further evidence of CHK2 in inherited cancer predisposition. 11479205 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Germline mutations in three DNA mismatch repair genes, hMSH2, hMLH1, and hMSH6, have been found to segregate in HNPCC and HNPCC-like families. 11691795 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutations of the 'minor' mismatch repair gene MSH6 in typical and atypical hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. 14574004 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These results demonstrate a marked difference between hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer-related CRCs and ECs and suggest that the development of the latter tumors is selectively associated with the MSH2/MSH6 protein complex deficiency. 11306449 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Germline mutations within mismatch repair genes, such as hMSH2, hMLH1, and hMSH6, have been shown to be the hallmark of the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) syndrome. 11561760 2001
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE Six of the families that we studied fulfilled the original Amsterdam criteria; most families with MSH6, however, were only suspected to have HNPCC. 11709755 2002
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease BEFREE The role of the other mismatch repair genes hMSH2 and hMSH6 has been less well studied, but investigations on patients with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer indicate that these genes also may be involved. 11801550 2002
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR DNA mismatch repair defects: role in colorectal carcinogenesis. 11900875 2002
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE MSH2 in contrast to MLH1 and MSH6 is frequently inactivated by exonic and promoter rearrangements in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. 11830542 2002
Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer
0.800 Biomarker disease CLINGEN Six of the families that we studied fulfilled the original Amsterdam criteria; most families with MSH6, however, were only suspected to have HNPCC. 11709755 2002