VEGFA, vascular endothelial growth factor A, 7422

N. diseases: 1899; N. variants: 59
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays a pivotal role in the development of neovascularization in both physiological and pathological processes, e.g., developmental and reproductive angiogenesis, proliferative retinopathies, and cancers. 9815760 1997
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Furthermore, the concentrations of VEGF are elevated in the aqueous and vitreous humors of patients with proliferative retinopathies such as the diabetic retinopathy. 10469350 1999
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Furthermore, the concentrations of VEGF are elevated in the aqueous and vitreous humors of patients with proliferative retinopathies such as the diabetic retinopathy. 10494799 1999
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Retinal VEGF mRNA levels were measured in a murine model of oxygen-induced retinopathy during vaso-obliterative and hypoxic phases. 11023552 2000
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Vitreal macrophages express vascular endothelial growth factor in oxygen-induced retinopathy. 11345346 2000
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Among seven common polymorphisms in the promoter region, 5'-untranslated region (UTR) and 3'UTR of the VEGF gene, genotype distribution of the C(-634)G polymorphism differed significantly (P = 0.011) between patients with (n = 150) and without (n = 118) retinopathy, and the C allele was significantly increased in patients with retinopathy compared with those without retinopathy (P = 0.0037). 11978667 2002
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Pharmacologic intervention that inhibits the signals elicited by atRA may be effective in treating VEGF-mediated retinopathies. 11980848 2002
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE The process of retinal neovascularization in ROP and in animal models of oxygen-induced retinopathy is complex, and involves angiogenic factors, such as vascular endothelial growth factor, and basement membrane components. 12930159 2003
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE The VEGF -460 genotype was predictive of retinopathy, even after controlling for blood pressure, glycemic control, duration of diabetes, and obesity (P = 0.02). 14988276 2004
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma) gene has been recently associated with type 2 diabetes, obesity and traits depending on VEGF expression (e.g. retinopathy). 15782399 2005
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE We examined the possible association of the VEGF gene polymorphisms with diabetic nephropathy and retinopathy in type 2 diabetes patients. 17121786 2007
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE These data demonstrate that multiple VEGFA variants are associated with the development of severe retinopathy in type 1 diabetes. 17513698 2007
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE RNAi of VEGF and HIF-1alpha may have therapeutic potential in ischemic retinal diseases like diabetic retinopathy. 17869204 2007
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE Our results suggest that HIF-1 may be involved in angiogenesis by controlling the expression of VEGF in vivo and provide a possible strategy for the treatment of angiogenesis by targeting the HIF-1 alpha in ischemic retinopathies. 17947829 2007
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE To investigate whether vector-based HIF-1alpha -targeted shRNA expression system (pSUPER(siHIF-1alpha)) can inhibit HIF-1alpha and VEGF expression in vitro and suppress retinal neovascularization in the murine model of oxygen-induced retinopathy. 18853324 2008
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE In an ischemic retinopathy model or a transgenic model in which the rhodopsin promoter drives expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in photoreceptor there was significantly more NV in Sod1(-/-) compared to Sod1(+/+) mice. 19142872 2009
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Certain SNPs in intron 2 of the VEGF gene are associated with early progression of retinopathy in Japanese patients with type 1 diabetes, though their contributions were weakened by glycemic exposure. 19263526 2009
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group CTD_human Further, SERPINA3K blocked the overexpression of proinflammatory factors, such as VEGF, TNF-alpha, and ICAM-1, in the retina of the OIR model and in cultured retinal cells exposed to hypoxia. 19324842 2009
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE CNV in PXE-associated retinopathy is believed to be mediated by the action of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). 19483196 2009
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Ischaemia-induced retinal neovascularization and vascular leakage in the conditional VEGF knockout mice were analysed with fluorescein angiography, quantification of proliferative neovascular cells, immunohistochemistry, and immunoblotting using an oxygen-induced retinopathy model. 19768732 2009
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 Biomarker group BEFREE Administration of recombinant VEGF(165)b inhibits ocular angiogenesis in mouse models of retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, and colorectal carcinoma and metastatic melanoma. 19909248 2009
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Association between the -634C/G polymorphisms of the vascular endothelial growth factor and retinopathy in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis. 20591524 2010
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 GeneticVariation group BEFREE Previous studies using a candidate gene approach have uncovered a number of genetic loci that may shape this risk, such as the VEGF gene for retinopathy, the ELMO1 gene for nephropathy, and the ADIPOQ gene for coronary artery disease. 20835900 2010
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE The extended retinopathy is concomitant with prolonged overexpression of retinal vascular endothelial growth factor in PWG pups. 21056995 2010
CUI: C0035309
Disease: Retinal Diseases
Retinal Diseases
0.400 AlteredExpression group BEFREE We suggest that "early worsening" of retinopathy results when diabetic patients with minimal to moderate retinopathy, whose retinal circulation and, hence, retinal oxygen supply is compromised, are placed on a "tight" glucose control regimen and their major remaining retinal energy source is reduced, with VEGF up-regulation as a compensatory mechanism. 21158590 2011