Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0007787
Disease: Transient Ischemic Attack
Transient Ischemic Attack
0.200 Biomarker disease RGD WNK-Cab39-NKCC1 signaling increases the susceptibility to ischemic brain damage in hypertensive rats. 27798271 2017
CUI: C0005890
Disease: Body Height
Body Height
0.100 GeneticVariation phenotype GWASCAT Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power. 30595370 2019
CUI: C0596887
Disease: mathematical ability
mathematical ability
0.100 GeneticVariation phenotype GWASCAT Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals. 30038396 2018
CUI: C0027051
Disease: Myocardial Infarction
Myocardial Infarction
0.100 GeneticVariation disease GWASDB Association of a polymorphism of BTN2A1 with myocardial infarction in East Asian populations. 21211798 2011
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Manipulation of WNK2 expression affects miR-370-mediated cell proliferation and tumor growth. 31009242 2019
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 Biomarker group BEFREE We also explored the functional effect and mechanism of WNK2 on tumor growth and metastasis. 31349001 2019
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 Biomarker group BEFREE WNK2, which is exclusively enriched in neurons, is well known as an anti-proliferative tumor suppressor. 27131446 2016
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 Biomarker group BEFREE WNK2 is a tumor suppressor gene expressed in normal brain, and silenced by promoter methylation in gliomas. 25596741 2015
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 PosttranslationalModification group BEFREE WNK2 hypermethylation was higher in tumor than in surrounding inflamed tissues and was observed in PanIN lesions as well as in a PDAC mouse model. 23912455 2014
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 Biomarker group BEFREE Together, these results validate the WNK2 gene as a recurrent target for epigenetic silencing in glia-derived brain tumours and provide first mechanistic evidence for a tumour-suppressing role of WNK2 that is related to Rac1 signalling and tumour cell invasion and proliferation. 23035050 2013
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 Biomarker group BEFREE Epigenetic silencing of the kinase tumor suppressor WNK2 is tumor-type and tumor-grade specific. 19001526 2009
CUI: C0027651
Disease: Neoplasms
Neoplasms
0.080 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The WNK2 silencing by epigenetic mechanisms was significantly associated (P < 0.01) with a known genetic signature of chemosensitive oligodendroglial tumors, 1p and 19q deletion, in two small but independent tumor sets. 17578925 2007
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.020 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Biofunctional investigations revealed a tumor-suppressor role of WNK2: its inactivation led to ERK1/2 signaling activation in HCC cells, tumor-associated macrophage infiltration, and tumor growth and metastasis. 31349001 2019
ANOPHTHALMIA AND PULMONARY HYPOPLASIA
0.020 Biomarker disease BEFREE Mechanistic investigation of RAGE downstream in fibroblasts revealed a novel contribution of a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK), tumor progression locus 2 (TPL2), which is required for positive regulation of PDAC cell motility through induction of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2) and its catalyzed production of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), a strong chemoattractive fatty acid. 31046874 2019
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.020 Biomarker group BEFREE Hematopoietic progenitor kinase 1 (HPK1) belongs to the mitogen activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase (MAP4K) family of serine/threonine kinases, which have been associated with the incidence and progression of a variety of gastrointestinal malignant tumors in humans. 28765906 2017
CUI: C0027627
Disease: Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasm Metastasis
0.020 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Mixed-lineage kinase 3 (MLK3), a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAP3K), has critical roles in metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), in part by regulating paxillin phosphorylation and focal adhesion turnover. 28604765 2017
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.020 AlteredExpression phenotype BEFREE Thus, WNK2 promoter methylation and silencing in gliomas is associated with increased JNK activation and MMP2 expression and activity, thus explaining in part tumor cell invasion potential. 25596741 2015
ANOPHTHALMIA AND PULMONARY HYPOPLASIA
0.020 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE WNK2 mRNA and protein expressions were lower in PDAC and CP compared with normal tissues both in patients and mouse models. 23912455 2014
CUI: C0025286
Disease: Meningioma
Meningioma
0.020 PosttranslationalModification disease BEFREE The gene encoding protein kinase WNK2 was recently identified to be silenced by promoter hypermethylation in gliomas and meningiomas, suggesting a tumour-suppressor role in these brain tumours. 23035050 2013
CUI: C1269955
Disease: Tumor Cell Invasion
Tumor Cell Invasion
0.020 Biomarker phenotype BEFREE Together, these results validate the WNK2 gene as a recurrent target for epigenetic silencing in glia-derived brain tumours and provide first mechanistic evidence for a tumour-suppressing role of WNK2 that is related to Rac1 signalling and tumour cell invasion and proliferation. 23035050 2013
CUI: C0025286
Disease: Meningioma
Meningioma
0.020 Biomarker disease BEFREE WNK2 could be reactivated with a methylation inhibitor in IOMM-Lee, a meningioma cell line with a densely methylated WNK2 CpG island and lack of WNK2 expression. 19001526 2009
CUI: C0006826
Disease: Malignant Neoplasms
Malignant Neoplasms
0.020 Biomarker group BEFREE Epigenome scans and cancer genome sequencing converge on WNK2, a kinase-independent suppressor of cell growth. 17578925 2007
CUI: C0006142
Disease: Malignant neoplasm of breast
Malignant neoplasm of breast
0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE microRNA-370 Promotes Cell Growth by Targeting WNK2 in Breast Cancer. 31009242 2019
CUI: C0023467
Disease: Leukemia, Myelocytic, Acute
Leukemia, Myelocytic, Acute
0.010 Biomarker disease BEFREE Despite diverse functions in diseases, the prognostic potential of the family of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase genes in acute myeloid leukemia remains unknown. 31522654 2019
CUI: C0175697
Disease: Van der Woude syndrome
Van der Woude syndrome
0.010 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Administration of LPS significantly increased the levels of mitogen activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MEKK)3 and P-P65 levels, while transfection with miR-NPs significantly reduced the expression of both MEKK3 and P-P65, reflecting that of the control. 31226473 2019