Associated Genetic Biomarkers
Associated Diseases
Associated Pathways

Overview

Location [1]
2p21-p16.3
Pathway
Chromatin remodeling/DNA methylation
Protein [2]
DNA mismatch repair protein Msh2
Synonyms [1]
HNPCC1, COCA1, HNPCC, MMRCS2, LCFS2, FCC1, hMSH2

The mutS homolog 2 (MSH2) gene encodes a protein that functions in DNA-mismatch repair. Missense mutations, nonsense mutations, silent mutations, whole gene deletions, frameshift deletions and insertions, and in-frame deletions are observed in cancers such as endometrial cancer, intestinal cancer, and skin cancer.

MSH2 is altered in 1.90% of all cancers with colon adenocarcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, endometrial endometrioid adenocarcinoma, prostate adenocarcinoma, and breast invasive ductal carcinoma having the greatest prevalence of alterations [3].

MSH2 GENIE Cases - Top Diseases

The most common alterations in MSH2 are MSH2 Mutation (1.55%), MSH2 Nonsense (0.30%), MSH2 Loss (0.07%), MSH2 Amplification (0.05%), and MSH2 E580* (0.04%) [3].

MSH2 GENIE Cases - Top Alterations

Biomarker-Directed Therapies

Significance of MSH2 in Diseases

Malignant Solid Tumor +

Colorectal Carcinoma +

Endometrial Carcinoma +

Endometrial Adenocarcinoma +

Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma +

Melanoma +

Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Breast Carcinoma +

Urothelial Carcinoma +

Renal Cell Carcinoma +

Gastric Carcinoma +

Cervical Carcinoma +

Adenocarcinoma Of The Gastroesophageal Junction +

Hepatocellular Carcinoma +

Small Cell Lung Carcinoma +

Ovarian Carcinoma +

Merkel Cell Carcinoma +

Prostate Adenocarcinoma +

Bladder Carcinoma +

Gastric Adenocarcinoma +

Prostate Carcinoma +

Esophageal Carcinoma +

Mesothelioma +

Pancreatic Carcinoma +

Skin Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Colorectal Adenocarcinoma +

Head And Neck Carcinoma +

Fallopian Tube Carcinoma +

Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma +

Anal Carcinoma +

Cholangiocarcinoma +

Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma +

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Basal Cell Carcinoma +

Soft Tissue Sarcoma +

Malignant Uterine Neoplasm +

Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma +

Colon Adenocarcinoma +

Colon Carcinoma +

Cutaneous Melanoma +

Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma +

Hodgkin Lymphoma +

Esophagogastric Carcinoma +

Rectal Adenocarcinoma +

High Grade Ovarian Serous Adenocarcinoma +

Biliary Tract Carcinoma +

Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma +

Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma +

Sarcoma +

Salivary Gland Carcinoma +

Endometrial Serous Adenocarcinoma +

Thyroid Gland Carcinoma +

Lymphoma +

Vulvar Carcinoma +

Endometrial Undifferentiated Carcinoma +

Endometrial Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma +

Endometrial Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma +

Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma +

Squamous Cell Carcinoma Of The Penis +

Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma +

Glioblastoma +

Gallbladder Carcinoma +

Glioma +

Neuroendocrine Carcinoma +

Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Central Nervous System Neoplasm +

Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Adnexal Carcinoma +

Malignant Ovarian Epithelial Tumor +

Cancer +

Lung Adenocarcinoma +

Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma +

Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma +

Non-Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma +

Anal Canal Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

High Grade Fallopian Tube Serous Adenocarcinoma +

Lynch Syndrome +

Thymic Carcinoma +

Vaginal Carcinoma +

Hypopharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Endometrial Mixed Adenocarcinoma +

Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma +

Small Intestinal Adenocarcinoma +

Penile Carcinoma +

Malignant Uterine Corpus Neoplasm +

Skin Carcinoma +

Malignant Small Intestinal Neoplasm +

Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma +

Ependymoma +

Malignant Gastric Neoplasm +

Ovarian Endometrioid Tumor +

Malignant Glioma +

Malignant Intestinal Neoplasm +

Carcinoma Of Unknown Primary +

Desmoid-Type Fibromatosis +

Squamous Cell Lung Carcinoma +

Uterine Corpus Carcinosarcoma +

Carcinoma +

Ovarian Clear Cell Tumor +

Lung Carcinoma +

Adenocarcinoma +

Malignant Esophagogastric Neoplasm +

Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma +

Acral Lentiginous Melanoma +

Lung Neuroendocrine Neoplasm +

Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma +

Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma +

Pecoma +

Medulloblastoma +

Thymoma +

Carcinosarcoma +

Bone Sarcoma +

Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma +

Liposarcoma +

Leiomyosarcoma +

Appendix Carcinoma +

Malignant Brain Neoplasm +

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor +

Multiple Myeloma +

Mature T-Cell And NK-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma +

Anaplastic Astrocytoma +

Malignant Salivary Gland Neoplasm +

Pleural Mesothelioma +

Osteosarcoma +

Bile Duct Carcinoma +

Small Intestinal Neuroendocrine Tumor +

Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma +

Ewing Sarcoma +

Ampulla Of Vater Carcinoma +

Mucosal Melanoma +

Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma +

Acute Myeloid Leukemia +

Appendix Neuroendocrine Tumor +

Bronchogenic Carcinoma +

Chondrosarcoma +

Colon Neuroendocrine Neoplasm +

Fallopian Tube Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma +

Fallopian Tube Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma +

High-Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma +

Mantle Cell Lymphoma +

Mediastinal Large B-Cell Lymphoma +

Ocular Melanoma +

Ovarian Clear Cell Adenocarcinoma +

Ovarian Endometrioid Adenocarcinofibroma +

Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor +

Peritoneal Mesothelioma +

Primary Mediastinal B-Cell Lymphoma +

Primary Peritoneal Clear Cell Carcinoma +

Primary Peritoneal Endometrioid Adenocarcinoma +

Primary Peritoneal High Grade Serous Adenocarcinoma +

Primary Peritoneal Serous Adenocarcinoma +

Rectal Neuroendocrine Tumor +

Undifferentiated (Embryonal) Sarcoma +

Ureter Urothelial Carcinoma +

Vulvar Squamous Cell Carcinoma +

References

1. Hart R and Prlic A. Universal Transcript Archive Repository. Version uta_20180821. San Francisco CA: Github;2015. https://github.com/biocommons/uta

2. The UniProt Consortium. UniProt: a worldwide hub of protein knowledge. Nucleic Acids Research. 2019;47:D506-D515.

3. The AACR Project GENIE Consortium. AACR Project GENIE: powering precision medicine through an international consortium. Cancer Discovery. 2017;7(8):818-831. Dataset Version 8. This dataset does not represent the totality of the genetic landscape; see paper for more information.

4. All assertions and clinical trial landscape data are curated from primary sources. You can read more about the curation process here.