UBQLN2, ubiquilin 2, 29978

N. diseases: 59; N. variants: 14
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 CausalMutation disease CLINVAR
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 Biomarker disease GENOMICS_ENGLAND Mutations in UBQLN2 cause dominant X-linked juvenile and adult-onset ALS and ALS/dementia. 21857683 2011
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT Mutations in UBQLN2 cause dominant X-linked juvenile and adult-onset ALS and ALS/dementia. 21857683 2011
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 Biomarker disease CTD_human
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT UBQLN2/ubiquilin 2 mutation and pathology in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 22717235 2012
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT UBQLN2 mutations are rare in French and French-Canadian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 22560112 2012
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT ALS-linked mutations in ubiquilin-2 or hnRNPA1 reduce interaction between ubiquilin-2 and hnRNPA1. 25616961 2015
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT Screening in ALS and FTD patients reveals 3 novel UBQLN2 mutations outside the PXX domain and a pure FTD phenotype. 22892309 2012
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 GeneticVariation disease UNIPROT Pathogenic mutation of UBQLN2 impairs its interaction with UBXD8 and disrupts endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation. 24215460 2014
AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS 15, WITH OR WITHOUT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA
0.700 GeneticVariation disease CLINVAR
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE These data further support the importance of ubiquilin 2 in the pathogenesis of ALS. 22717235 2012
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We postulate that the changes in physical properties caused by ALS-linked Pxx mutations modify UBQLN2 behavior in vivo, possibly contributing to aberrant stress granule morphology and dynamics, leading to formation of inclusions, pathological characteristics of ALS. 30982635 2019
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE To analyze interaction between UBQLN2 and TDP-43 and to produce a relevant ALS animal model, we have generated a new transgenic mouse expressing UBQLN2<sup>P497H</sup> under the neurofilament heavy (NFH) gene promoter. 30377984 2019
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We propose that ALS-associated mutations in UBQLN2 disrupt folding and that both aggregated species and soluble oligomers instigate neuron autonomous toxicity through interference with Ub homeostasis. 29161404 2018
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Genetic variants in UBQLN1 gene have been linked to neurodegeneration and mutations in UBQLN2 have recently been identified as a rare cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). 22766032 2012
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In contrast, all five ALS mutations in ubiquilin-2 that we examined had reduced binding with WT hnRNPA1. 25616961 2015
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Investigation of proteins interacting with C9ORF72 using mass spectrometry identified other proteins implicated in ALS; ubiquilin-2 and heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins, hnRNPA2/B1 and hnRNPA1, and actin. 24549040 2014
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE ALS-linked mutations in UBQLN2 reduced its association with FUS and impaired its function in regulating FUS-RNA complex dynamics and SG formation. 30442662 2018
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our findings further support a causative role of the UBQLN2 gene in the pathogenesis of ALS and suggest that UBQLN2 mutations are rare in the French and French-Canadian population. 22560112 2012
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Ubiquilin2 (UBQLN2) is responsible for X-linked FTLD/ALS. 22477152 2012
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE UBQLN2 is able to cause any disease on the ALS-FTD continuum, including pure FTD. 22892309 2012
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE We inhibited UPS function and induced oxidative stress in the fibroblasts and found that ALS-related cellular changes, such as aggregate formation and ubiquitination of ALS-associated proteins (TDP-43 and ubiquilin 2), can be reproduced in these cells. 26013250 2015
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Pathogenic mutation of ubiquilin 2 (UBQLN2) causes neurodegeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. 27456931 2016
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE UBQLN2 was found to be a potent regulator of the levels of the FTD-linked secretory factor progranulin, possibly via the endosomal system, and ALS-linked mutations disturbed these functional consequences. 25398946 2015
CUI: C0002736
Disease: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
0.500 Biomarker disease BEFREE Genes linked to rare cases of familial ALS and/or FTD, like FUS, TARDBP, OPTN, and UBQLN2 may converge onto a unifying pathogenic pathway and thereby provide novel therapeutic targets common to a spectrum of etiologically diverse forms of ALS and ALS-FTD. 21901496 2011