Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is a genetically determined neurodegenerative metabolic disease resulting from the mutations in the NPC1 or NPC2 genes. 31197681 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease (1 per 100 000 newborns) caused by NPC proteins impairment that leads to unesterified cholesterol accumulation in late endosomal/lysosomal compartments. 31296176 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Two proteins have been linked as the critical components in the molecular mechanisms involved in the Niemann Pick type C (NPC) disease: NPC1, a 140 kDa polytopic membrane-bound protein, and the smaller (132 residues), water-soluble NPC2 protein. 30942586 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Statistical methods were used to analyze the correlation between IL-17A expression and the clinicopathological variables of NPC.The NPC patients were followed up. 31456038 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE We propose a model for sterol integration that clarifies the role of NPC proteins in this essential eukaryotic pathway and that rationalizes mutations in patients with Niemann-Pick disease type C. 31543266 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPCD) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with increases in cellular cholesterol and glycolipids and most commonly caused by defective NPC1, a late endosomal protein. 30872158 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Extensive workup for splenomegaly revealed NPC1 mutations consistent with NPC disease. 31352388 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE 2-Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CD) is an experimental therapy for Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) that reduced neuronal cholesterol and ganglioside storage, reduced Purkinje cell death, and increased lifespan in npc1-/- mice and NPC1 cats. 31707730 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Niemann Pick Type-C disease (NPC) is an inherited lysosomal storage disease (LSD) caused by pathogenic variants in the Npc1 or Npc2 genes that lead to the accumulation of cholesterol and lipids in lysosomes. 31605022 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE The highest hydrolysis activity of An-lipase was towards <i>p</i>NPC (C8), followed by <i>p</i>NPB (C4) and <i>p</i>NPA (C2), then <i>p</i>NPL (C12). 31168437 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick Disease Type C: Mutation Spectrum and Novel Sequence Variations in the Human NPC1 Gene. 30820861 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Hypomyelination in the central nerves system (CNS) is one of the most obviously pathological features in Niemann-Pick Type C disease (NPC), which is a rare neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in the NPC intracellular cholesterol transporter 1 or 2 (Npc1 or Npc2). 30866987 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE NPC is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern from mutations in NPC1 or NPC2 genes.The etiology of NPC is poorly defined. 31847862 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE The accumulation of lipids in the late endosomes and lysosomes of Niemann⁻Pick type C disease (NPCD) cells is a consequence of the dysfunction of one protein (usually NPC1) but induces dysfunction in many proteins. 30736449 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE A mutation in a region of the NPC1 gene commonly altered in NPC patients reduces NPC1 levels at synapses due to enhanced NPC1 protein degradation. 31535451 2019
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a neurodegenerative lysosomal lipid storage disease caused by autosomal recessive mutations in the NPC1 or NPC2 genes. 30285904 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a rare, progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in the NPC1 or the NPC2 gene. 29871644 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick type C disease (NP-C) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by a deficiency of NPC1 gene function, which leads to severe neuroinflammation such as astrogliosis. 29397865 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in either NPC-1 or NPC-2 genes, resulting in abnormal intracellular cholesterol trafficking. 30066180 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE TCF treatment significantly delayed both neurodegeneration and death in the Npc1 <sup>nmf164</sup> murine model of Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease. 29497113 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE We assessed the presence of NPC1 and Ptc1 proteins and evaluated the relative distribution and morphology of primary cilia in fibroblasts from five NPC1 patients and controls, and in normal fibroblasts treated with 3-ß-[2-(diethylamino)ethoxy]androst-5-en-17-one (U18666A), a cholesterol transport-inhibiting drug that is widely used to mimic NPC. 28332184 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We provide detailed investigation of the CLR-NPC1 (NTD) binding process; and propose the mechanism, by which Q92R mutation causes NPC disease. 30183109 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease is a rare neurovisceral disorder caused by mutations of either NPC1 or NPC2 gene and characterized by defective intracellular transport of cholesterol and glycosphingolipids, leading to neuron loss and myelin aberration in the central nervous system. 29406968 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Subsequent analyses showed that alexidine specifically increased levels of NPC1 transcript and mature protein in both control and NPC patient cells. 29659804 2018
CUI: C0220756
Disease: Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
0.900 Biomarker disease BEFREE Do GWAS and studies of heterozygotes for NPC1 and/or NPC2 explain why NPC disease cases are so rare? 30209687 2018