Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We performed an integrated cytogenetic study using a combination of comparative genomic hybridization (CGH), spectral karyotyping (SKY) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to analyze chromosomal aberrations associated with 8 human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (EC-SCC) cell lines, and used real-time quantitative PCR (Q-PCR) to study the copy number changes of two candidate genes of chromosome 3q, PIK3CA and TP63, in 20 primary tumors of EC-SCC. 12963965 2003
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE This study analyzed the clinical effect of messenger RNA (mRNA) expression for PIK3CA (the gene that encodes phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase catalytic alpha-polypeptide) and TFRC (the gene that encodes the transferrin receptor), which map within chromosome 3q in ESCC. 16788758 2006
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE PIK3CA mutation status in Japanese esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. 18262558 2008
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE In the present study, we investigated the mRNA levels of four candidate genes (TERC, SCCRO, EVI-1, and SnoN) to determine whether genes other than PIK3CA are targets for amplification at 3q26 in ESCC. 18612694 2008
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Immunohistochemically, positive immunoreaction for PIK3CA was detectable in 33 of 66 (50.0%) ESCC cases, while it was not detectable in the remaining 33 cases. 19212681 2009
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE These data indicate that downregulation of HMW TMs occurs basically in SCCE and the activation of MEK/ERK and PI3K/Akt pathways as well as the epigenetic mechanism of promoter hypermethylation play important role in TM1 suppression in SCCE. 22965424 2012
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE However, the influence of PIK3CA mutations on the prognosis of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) remains unclear. 23532889 2013
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Furthermore, patients with PIK3CA-mutated tumors showed a trend towards favorable overall survival (P = .085) but not disease-free survival (P = .238), suggesting that PIK3CA gene status may be a favorable predictive marker in ESCC patients. 24360885 2014
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE EGFR:rs2227983 and 3 SNPs of PIK3CA also showed borderline significant correlation with OS of advanced ESCC patients (P = 0.058 for rs2227983; P = 0.069, 0.091 and 0.067 for rs6443624, rs7651265 and rs7621329 of PIK3CA respectively). 24945674 2014
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Direct sequencing was applied to investigate mutations in exons 9 and 20 of PIK3CA in 406 Chinese ESCC patients. 25054828 2014
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Importantly, the level of miR-508 correlates with poor survival and activated PI3K/Akt signalling in a large cohort of ESCC specimens. 25099196 2014
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Disruption of the PTEN/PI3K pathway involved in TGF-β1-induced EMT may provide possible routes for therapeutic intervention to ESCC. 25175594 2014
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE We previously revealed genetic and epigenetic alterations associated with esophageal SCCs in relation to clinical outcome, including mutations in KRAS, BRAF, and PIK3CA, p53 expression, and long interspersed nucleotide element-1 (LINE-1) methylation, a surrogate marker for global DNA methylation level. 25691283 2015
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Notably, high activity of hedgehog signaling and the PI3K pathway in approximately 60% of 104 ESCC tumors indicates that therapies targeting these pathways might be particularly promising strategies for ESCC. 25839328 2015
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Dasatinib enhances cisplatin sensitivity in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) cells via suppression of PI3K/AKT and Stat3 pathways. 25843419 2015
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE MicroRNA-126 is down-regulated in human esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and inhibits the proliferation and migration in EC109 cell via PI3K/AKT signaling pathway. 26191164 2015
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE In two independent cohorts of ESCC samples (n = 20 and n = 53, respectively), Kindlin-2 expression positively correlated with the activation status of both the integrin signaling pathway and the PI3K-AKT signaling pathway (both P < 0.01). 26334393 2015
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We identified statistically significant mutual exclusivity between mutations in NOTCH1 and PIK3CA in ESCC samples. 26528858 2016
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Although the cancer-associated genes TP53, PIK3CA, CDKN2A and their pathways showed no significant difference between stage I and stage III tumors, we identified and validated a prevalence of mutations in NOTCH1 and in the NOTCH pathway that indicate that they are involved in the preclinical and early stages of ESCC. 26759717 2016
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings suggest that copy number loss of Variation_91720 in PIK3CA predicts risk of ESCC, which might serve as a biomarker that for early diagnosis of ESCC. 26823766 2015
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We evaluated APOBEC3B expression in ESCC and investigated the relationships among the immunoreactivity of APOBEC3B, clinical and pathological features, and the molecular features of ESCC (PIK3CA mutation, p53 expression, and LINE-1 methylation level). 26880326 2016
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Expression of PIK3CA was significantly higher in ESCC than in paired normal controls and was ethnicity independent; no statistically significant difference was observed between PIK3CA expression and sex, age, depth of invasion, tumor differentiation, lymph node metastasis, or prognosis. 27001433 2016
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE PIK3CA amplification may represent a promising therapeutic target for ESCC. 27095573 2016
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Further study revealed that MMP1 facilitated ESCC through the activation of the PI3K/AKT pathway. 27130665 2016
Squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus
0.100 Biomarker disease BEFREE Targeting the PI3K/Akt signaling pathway in HPV16 positive tissues is an available therapeutic for ESCC patients. 27489353 2016