Gene Information

Gene symbol: ERBB2

Gene name: v-erb-b2 erythroblastic leukemia viral oncogene homolog 2, neuro/glioblastoma derived oncogene homolog (avian)

HGNC ID: 3430

Synonyms: NEU, HER-2, CD340, HER2

Related Genes

# Gene Symbol Number of hits
1 BCL2 1 hits
2 BRCA1 1 hits
3 CCND1 1 hits
4 CEACAM5 1 hits
5 CTSD 1 hits
6 EGF 1 hits
7 EGFR 1 hits
8 ESR1 1 hits
9 GIP 1 hits
10 GPR148 1 hits
11 HMBS 1 hits
12 HOXB1 1 hits
13 HRAS 1 hits
14 KRAS 1 hits
15 MYC 1 hits
16 NFKB1 1 hits
17 NGFR 1 hits
18 NME1 1 hits
19 NME2 1 hits
20 PGR 1 hits
21 PHB 1 hits
22 SH3PXD2A 1 hits
23 THRA 1 hits
24 TOP2A 1 hits
25 TP53 1 hits
26 WNT3 1 hits

Related Sentences

# PMID Sentence
1 7490069 They were all located on the long arm of chromosome 17, in loci located between q11 and q21.3, a region known to contain the c-erbB-2 oncogene and the BRCA1 breast carcinomas, and overexpression of three of them was dependent on gene amplification in breast cancer cell lines.
2 7852187 Using seven polymorphic markers on chromosome 17q21, D17S250, ERBB2, THRA1, D17S579, D17S588, GIP and NME1, linkage to BRCA1 was analyzed.
3 8007694 Perturbations of oncogenes in breast carcinoma include amplifications of the HER-2/neu and PRAD1 genes, as well as p53 mutations.
4 8007694 Such germline abnormalities may occur at the BRCA1, H-RAS VNTR, and p53 loci.
5 8117599 Of the available markers, those with the greatest promise in 1993 include the yet-to-be-cloned BrCa1, the p53 tumor suppressor gene, tissue-associated prognostic factors such as HER-2/neu, cathepsin-D, and indicators of angiogenesis, and circulating tumor markers that provide an indication of clinical course, such as CA15-3 and CEA.
6 8244380 Likelihood ratios of at least 1000:1 support the 10-locus framework order: cen-D17S250-ERBB2-(THRA1, TOP2A)-D17S855-PPY-D17S190-MTBT1-GP3A++ +-BTR-D17S588-tel.
7 8460637 THRA1 and D17S183 flank an interval of < 4 cM for the breast-ovarian cancer gene (BRCA1) on chromosome 17q21.
8 8460637 In order to pinpoint the locale of the gene for early-onset familial breast and ovarian cancer (BRCA1), polymorphisms were developed within the locus for thyroid hormone receptor alpha (THRA1) and for several anonymous sequences at chromosome 17q12-q21.
9 8460637 Gene mapping in extended families with inherited, early-onset breast and ovarian cancer indicates that BRCA1 is distal to THRA1 and proximal to D17S183 (SCG43), an interval of < 4 cM.
10 8460637 This locale excludes HER2, THRA1, WNT3, HOX2, NGFR, PHB, COLIA1, NME1, and NME2 as candidates for BRCA1 but does not exclude RARA or EDH17B.
11 8605112 The major types of genetic abnormalities that are frequently observed in breast tumors are amplification of protooncogenes (MYC, ERBB2) and DNA from chromosome band 11q13; mutation of TP53; and loss of heterozygosity from chromosomes and chromosome arms 1, 3p, 6q, 7q, 8p, 11, 13q, 16q, 17, 18q, and 22q.
12 8605112 Recently, linkage analyses of large families with a predisposition to breast cancer have been performed in order to map breast cancer susceptibility genes (TP53, BRCA1, BRCA2).
13 8707769 Of the available markers, those with the greatest promise in 1994 include the yet-to-be-cloned BrCa1, the p53 tumor suppressor gene, tissue-associated prognostic factors such as HER-2/neu, cathepsin-D, and indicators of angiogenesis, and circulating tumor markers that provide an indication of clinical course, such as CA15-3 and CEA.
14 8709940 The major types of genetic alterations that are frequently observed in breast cancer are amplification of protooncogenes (MYC, ERBB2); mutation of TP53; and loss of heterozygosity on chromosomes 1, 3p, 8p, 11p, 13q, 17q, 17, and 22q.
15 8709940 Recently, two major distinct breast susptibility genes were isolated, namely BRCA1 and BRCA2.
16 8718525 Many oncogenes and tumour suppressor genes have been implicated, encoding proteins that are important at many levels of cell regulation, from cell surface molecules responding to external signals (eg ERBB2) to nuclear factors controlling gene transcription (eg TP53, MYC).
17 8787054 Of the available markers, those with the greatest promise include circulating tumor markers that provide an indication of clinical course, such as CA15-3 and CEA, and novel markers such as BrCa1, antibodies to p53, antibodies to HER-2/neu, indicators of angiogenesis, and the extracellular domain of HER-2/neu.
18 8872329 FISH detection of HER-2/neu oncogene amplification in early onset breast cancer.
19 8872329 FISH detection of HER-2/neu oncogene amplification in early onset breast cancer.
20 8872329 FISH detection of HER-2/neu oncogene amplification in early onset breast cancer.
21 8872329 FISH detection of HER-2/neu oncogene amplification in early onset breast cancer.
22 8872329 HER-2/neu (c-erbB-2) gene amplification based on Southern blotting or immunohistochemistry has been shown to be predictive of poor outcome in breast cancer occurring in women over 40, but there is little data on the role of HER-2/neu in young women with breast cancer, many of whom may have inherited BRCA1 or other predisposing genes.
23 8872329 HER-2/neu (c-erbB-2) gene amplification based on Southern blotting or immunohistochemistry has been shown to be predictive of poor outcome in breast cancer occurring in women over 40, but there is little data on the role of HER-2/neu in young women with breast cancer, many of whom may have inherited BRCA1 or other predisposing genes.
24 8872329 HER-2/neu (c-erbB-2) gene amplification based on Southern blotting or immunohistochemistry has been shown to be predictive of poor outcome in breast cancer occurring in women over 40, but there is little data on the role of HER-2/neu in young women with breast cancer, many of whom may have inherited BRCA1 or other predisposing genes.
25 8872329 HER-2/neu (c-erbB-2) gene amplification based on Southern blotting or immunohistochemistry has been shown to be predictive of poor outcome in breast cancer occurring in women over 40, but there is little data on the role of HER-2/neu in young women with breast cancer, many of whom may have inherited BRCA1 or other predisposing genes.
26 8872329 The present study used fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) on archival specimens of breast cancer from 37 women under the age of 40 to evaluate the role of HER-2/neu amplification in this cohort, and to also evaluate the efficacy of FISH for quantifying amplification.
27 8872329 The present study used fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) on archival specimens of breast cancer from 37 women under the age of 40 to evaluate the role of HER-2/neu amplification in this cohort, and to also evaluate the efficacy of FISH for quantifying amplification.
28 8872329 The present study used fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) on archival specimens of breast cancer from 37 women under the age of 40 to evaluate the role of HER-2/neu amplification in this cohort, and to also evaluate the efficacy of FISH for quantifying amplification.
29 8872329 The present study used fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) on archival specimens of breast cancer from 37 women under the age of 40 to evaluate the role of HER-2/neu amplification in this cohort, and to also evaluate the efficacy of FISH for quantifying amplification.
30 8872329 Thus, this study demonstrates that FISH is a reproducible and sensitive technique for detecting HER-2/neu amplification, and that amplification of the oncogene is the strongest independent indicator of recurrence of breast cancer in young women.
31 8872329 Thus, this study demonstrates that FISH is a reproducible and sensitive technique for detecting HER-2/neu amplification, and that amplification of the oncogene is the strongest independent indicator of recurrence of breast cancer in young women.
32 8872329 Thus, this study demonstrates that FISH is a reproducible and sensitive technique for detecting HER-2/neu amplification, and that amplification of the oncogene is the strongest independent indicator of recurrence of breast cancer in young women.
33 8872329 Thus, this study demonstrates that FISH is a reproducible and sensitive technique for detecting HER-2/neu amplification, and that amplification of the oncogene is the strongest independent indicator of recurrence of breast cancer in young women.
34 8976125 The major types of genetic alterations in breast cancer are amplification of protooncogenes (ERBB2 and MYC) and DNA from chromosome band 11q13; mutation of p53; and loss of heterozygosity on 1p, 3p, 8p, 11p, 13q, 16q, 17p, 17q, 18q.
35 8976125 Recently, two distinct familial breast cancer susceptibility genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, have been isolated.
36 9155518 Prior to BRCA1 analysis, 79 breast and 19 ovarian tumours from 57 breast and breast-ovarian cancer families, and 170 tumours from a comparison group of stage II breast cancers were studied with regard to histopathological features; immunohistochemistry [c-erbB-2, p53, oestrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR)], DNA flow cytometry and S-phase fraction.
37 9155518 Prior to BRCA1 analysis, 79 breast and 19 ovarian tumours from 57 breast and breast-ovarian cancer families, and 170 tumours from a comparison group of stage II breast cancers were studied with regard to histopathological features; immunohistochemistry [c-erbB-2, p53, oestrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR)], DNA flow cytometry and S-phase fraction.
38 9155518 Additionally, as compared to BRCA1 negative tumours, the BRCA1 positive tumours were significantly more often ER, PgR and c-erbB-2 negative.
39 9155518 Additionally, as compared to BRCA1 negative tumours, the BRCA1 positive tumours were significantly more often ER, PgR and c-erbB-2 negative.
40 9178910 At least four genes implicated in breast cancer reside on chromosome 17 (p53, 17p13; Her-2/neu/ERBB2, 17q12; BRCA1, 17q21; and nm23, 17q22).
41 9188464 A c-erbB-2 promoter-specific nuclear matrix protein from human breast tumor tissues mediates NF-kappaB DNA binding activity.
42 9188464 A c-erbB-2 promoter-specific nuclear matrix protein from human breast tumor tissues mediates NF-kappaB DNA binding activity.
43 9188464 Such a complex could explain at a molecular level the "increase in NF-kappaB DNA binding activity" often observed in c-erbB-2- and BRCA1-positive human breast tumors.
44 9188464 Such a complex could explain at a molecular level the "increase in NF-kappaB DNA binding activity" often observed in c-erbB-2- and BRCA1-positive human breast tumors.
45 9378159 Highly expressed oncogenes such as bcl-2, HER2/neu and others or mutated suppressor genes such as p53 or BRCA1 have been characterised as hereditary susceptibility genes leading to syndromes such as breast/ovarian cancer syndrome, Li-Fraumeni and others.
46 9378159 Furthermore efflux-genes such as MDR-1 or MRP can be circumvented, suicide-genes can be employed which can facilitate sensitivity by encoding enzymes capable of converting inactive forms of a drug into toxic antimetabolites and immunotherapy can be achieved, by transfection of tumour cells with adenoviral vectors encoding immunomodulators such as IL-2 or MHC molecules.
47 9408751 Chromosome 17 contains at least four genes implicated in breast cancer (TP53, ERBB2 (Her2/neu), BRCA1, and NM23), as well as other putative tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes implicated in loss of heterozygosity or allelic imbalance studies.
48 9500773 We compared molecular alterations in histologically homologous ovarian and uterine carcinomas, including the prevalence of allelic loss of markers on 17q (within and distal to the familial breast-ovarian cancer gene BRCA1), mutations of codon 12 of Ki-ras and immunohistochemical expression of the p53 and c-erbB2 gene products in endometrioid and papillary serous carcinomas occurring in the uterus and ovary.
49 9500773 We compared molecular alterations in histologically homologous ovarian and uterine carcinomas, including the prevalence of allelic loss of markers on 17q (within and distal to the familial breast-ovarian cancer gene BRCA1), mutations of codon 12 of Ki-ras and immunohistochemical expression of the p53 and c-erbB2 gene products in endometrioid and papillary serous carcinomas occurring in the uterus and ovary.
50 9500773 Immunohistochemical expression of c-erbB2 and mutations of codon 12 of Ki-ras were present in a minority of carcinomas.
51 9500773 Immunohistochemical expression of c-erbB2 and mutations of codon 12 of Ki-ras were present in a minority of carcinomas.
52 9559296 The method was developed for the c-erbB-2 gene, using the porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD) gene as an internal standard.
53 9618944 They also express the BRCA-1, erbB2, and EGF receptor genes and possess the H-ras, K-ras, and p53 genes.
54 9833771 Cell lines included those from patients with germline BRCA1 and FHIT gene mutations and others with possible genetic predisposition.
55 9833771 Analysis of the breast tumor cell lines indicated that most of the cell lines had the following features: they were derived from large tumors with or without axillary node metastases; were aneuploid and exhibited a moderate to poorly differentiated phenotype; were estrogen receptor (ER)- and progesterone receptor (PR)-negative; and overexpressed p53 and HER2/neu proteins.
56 10213514 Distinct molecular pathogeneses of early-onset breast cancers in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: a population-based study.
57 10213514 Breast cancers arising in women with and without a germline mutation in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene display different histological features, which suggests unique mechanisms of molecular pathogenesis: We used a molecular pathological analysis to define the genetic abnormalities relevant to these specific pathogeneses.
58 10213514 Tumor material was studied from 40 women with breast cancer diagnosed before 40 years of age, sampled from a population-based study and stratified by BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutation status.
59 10213514 Breast cancers occurring in BRCA1 mutation carriers had significantly higher levels of p53 expression, including the preinvasive (carcinoma in situ) stage of disease, compared with cancers occurring in BRCA2 mutation carriers or women with no detectable germline mutation.
60 10213514 Expression of the prognostic factors c-erbB-2, cyclin D1, and estrogen receptor was significantly less common in BRCA1 mutation carriers.
61 10213514 Lower levels of cyclin D1 were also found in cancers from BRCA2 mutation carriers compared with non-mutation carriers.
62 10213514 Direct p53 mutation analysis revealed mutations in 18% of all of the early-onset breast cancers within the study and included rare insertion and deletional mutations in cancers from BRCA1 mutation carriers.
63 10213514 Our data indicate that a BRCA1 breast cancer phenotype may be recognized by an exceptionally high proliferation rate and early and frequent p53 overexpression but infrequent selection for overexpression of several other prognostic factor proteins known to be involved in breast oncogenesis.
64 10389907 Reduction of BRCA1 protein expression in sporadic carcinomas was associated with solid-tubular phenotype, with poor tubular differentiation, and with an overexpression of c-erbB-2 protein, which is one of the prognostic factors in breast cancer.