| Entity | Williams-Beuren syndrom |
| Disease | Williams-Beuren syndrom (WBS) includes supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS), multiple peripheral pulmonary arterial stenoses, elfin face, mental and statural deficiency, characteristic dental malformation, and infantile hypercalcemia. It is associated with an autosomal dominant contiguous gene deletion involving genes from chromosome band 7q11.23, including CLDN4, elastin and LIM-kinase1. Haploinsufficiency for CLDN4 may be the cause of certain cardiovascular and musculo-skeletal abnormalities observed in the context of this disease. |
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| Entity | Gastric cancer |
| Oncogenesis | Downregulated in gastric cancer. Absence of CLDN4 may play a role in the disruption of cell-to-cell adhesion in diffuse type gastric cancer and in a loss of differentiation. |
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| Entity | pancreatic cancer |
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| Oncogenesis | Overexpressed in pancreatic cancer. Overexpression is predominantly observed in well-differentiated tumors with decreased metastatic potential |
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| Entity | Breast cancer |
| Oncogenesis | Overexpressed in breast cancer and Paget's disease. Significance unclear. |
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| Entity | Ovarian cancer |
| Oncogenesis | CLDN4 is upregulated in ovarian tumors and cell lines and may represent a novel marker for this disease. |
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| Entity | Squamous cell carcinoma and Bowen's disease |
| Oncogenesis | Expression of claudin-4 is associated with keratinization in SCC and BD. |
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| Entity | Prostate cancer |
| Oncogenesis | Overexpressed in prostate cancer ephitelium. Significance unclear |
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| Genes for the CPE receptor (CPETR1) and the human homolog of RVP1 (CPETR2) are localized within the Williams-Beuren syndrome deletion. |
| Paperna T, Peoples R, Wang YK, Kaplan P, Francke U |
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| PMID 14983936 |
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