RET, ret proto-oncogene, 5979

N. diseases: 607; N. variants: 162
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE However, both RET/PTC1<sup>TG</sup>;Patz1<sup>+/-</sup> and RET/PTC1<sup>TG</sup>;Patz1<sup>-/-</sup> mice developed a more aggressive thyroid cancer phenotype-characterized by higher Ki-67 expression, presence of ATCs, and increased incidence of solid variants of PTC-than that shown by RET/PTC1<sup>TG</sup>; Patz1<sup>+/+</sup> compound mice. 29584698 2018
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), genetic events involve RET and TRK (rearrangements) and BRAF and RAS (mutations), although RAS mutations are uncommon except in the follicular variant of PTC. 17131411 2006
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE On the contrary, genetic alterations in sporadic papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are better characterized, the most common one involving the activation of the proto-oncogene RET through somatic rearrangements. 11463498 2001
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE In conclusion, we postulate that the correlation between the RET/PTC rearrangement type and the aggressiveness of human PTC is related to the efficiency with which the oncogene subtype delivers mitogenic signals to thyroid cells. 11786418 2002
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Rearranged during transfection (RET)/papillary thyroid carcinoma gene rearrangements, BRAF (B-RAF proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase) gene mutations, RAS (rat sarcoma) mutations, and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 angiogenesis pathways are some of the known pathways playing a crucial role in the development of thyroid cancer. 25789503 2015
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Further investigation is necessary to confirm a potential pathogenetic role of exon 13 and 14 RET mutations with regard to the development of PTC. 12193298 2002
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Similar results were obtained with rat sarcoma and RET/papillary thyroid cancer inhibitors. 23559083 2013
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Gain-of-function mutations in the RET proto-oncogene resulting in a constitutively active receptor tyrosine kinase have been identified as responsible for three subtypes of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN-2) and the development of sporadic medullary and papillary thyroid carcinoma. 12869215 2003
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Preliminary results from our molecular oncology studies on adult-onset papillary thyroid cancer provide evidence for the induction of RET/PTC rearrangements and BRAF point mutation (both known to be early stage events in adult-onset papillary thyroid cancer) but with a difference: cases associated with the rearrangements were more frequent at high doses, and developed sooner than those with BRAF mutation. 18406659 2008
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our data provide limited evidence that TSHR- and RET-related genes are related to papillary thyroid cancer risk. 17220349 2007
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Breakpoint characterization of the ret/PTC oncogene in human papillary thyroid carcinoma. 8634704 1995
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Eighteen percent of post-Chernobyl PTC that exhibit RET rearrangements also showed chromosomal imbalances indicating that either additional genetic events are involved in this subset of tumors, or that intratumoral genetic heterogeneity exists in these tumors, suggesting a oligoclonal pattern to tumor development. 15650359 2004
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE To elucidate the role of these RET ligands in MTC tumorigenesis, their expression was determined in 15 MTC samples, one papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and three normal thyroid tissue specimens. 10822229 2000
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Genetic background among races may contribute to the different frequencies of PTC/retTPC oncogene in thyroid papillary carcinoma. 8275421 1994
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE H4 has previously been implicated in pathogenesis of papillary thyroid carcinoma as a fusion partner of RET. 11389034 2001
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE In addition, expression of Sin1 and activation of AKT kinase were analyzed in fresh-frozen tissue samples (normal/tumor), primary cell cultures (papillary thyroid carcinoma [PTC]), and an established thyroid cancer cell line (medullary thyroid carcinoma) by Western blotting. 25456951 2014
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE CONCLUSIONS Expression of the BRAF V600E mutation and RET/PTC translocation promoted the activity of NF-κB, expression of inflammatory mediators, and lymph node metastases in patients with PTC. 30254191 2018
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Previous reports, from our and other laboratories, showed that post-Chernobyl papillary thyroid carcinomas are characterized by a high frequency (about 60%) of RET oncogenic rearrangements (Fugazzola et al., 1995; Klugbauer et al., 1995; Ito et al., 1994). 8806699 1996
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Several clones were isolated in which PDGFbetaR fused in frame to H4/D10S170, a previously described ubiquitously expressed gene that is fused to the ret protein tyrosine kinase to form the PTC-1 oncogene in approximately 20% of papillary thyroid carcinomas. 10910073 2000
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The purpose of this study is to describe a case of concurrent medullary and papillary thyroid carcinoma (MTC and PTC) and cutaneous melanoma and to analyze BRAF(V600E) mutation in plasma and tissues. 24858900 2014
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Eight PTCs expressed two different mutations (1 RET/PTC + BRAF, 6 NTRK1 + BRAF, 1 RET/PTC + NTRK1). 20640859 2010
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE PTC is associated with gene rearrangements generating RET/PTC and TRK oncogenes, and to the BRAFV600E activating point mutation. 21339735 2011
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We have developed a home-brew tetracolor break-apart probe able to simultaneously identify the 2 most common genetic alterations in differentiated thyroid carcinoma: RET/PTC variants in papillary thyroid carcinoma and PAX8/PPARg fusion and variants in follicular thyroid carcinoma. 24510380 2014
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE More than 90% of PTC with RET rearrangement exhibit a PTC1 or PTC3 type of rearrangement with an inversion of the H4 or ELE1 gene, respectively, on chromosome 10. 11318605 2001
CUI: C0238463
Disease: Papillary thyroid carcinoma
Papillary thyroid carcinoma
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Mutation of RET leads to the constitutive signal activation causing papillary thyroid carcinoma and multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2). 17555548 2007