Annotation Detail
Information
- Associated Genes
- KIT
- Associated Variants
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KIT MUTATION
KIT MUTATION - Associated Disease
- Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
- Source Database
- DisGeNET
- Description
- In gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), molecularly targeted therapies, starting with imatinib, are directed against an activating mutation of KIT or PDGFRA, which drives the disease.
- Pubmed
- 24727986
- Section of the abstract supporting the evidence
- ALL_TEXT_1/3
- Number of the section of the abstract supporting the evidence
- 1
- Number of the sentence supporting the evidence
- 1
- Original source reporting the Gene Disease association
- BeFree,CLINVAR,CTD_human,GAD,LHGDN,MGD,ORPHANET,UNIPROT
- DisGENET score for the Gene Disease association
- 0.760239543636234
Drugs