Basic information

Biomarker: HE4

Histology type: endometrioid endometrial carcinoma

Cohort characteristics

Country: USA

Region: RI

Followed up time :

Total number Group I Group I number Group II Group II number Group III Group III number Group IV Group IV number
96 endometrioid adenocarcinomas 96

Sample information

Conclusion: Utility of tumor marker HE4 to predict depth of myometrial invasion in endometrioid adenocarcinoma of the uterus.

Sample type : serum

Sample method: enzyme immunoassay

Expression pattern : >70 pM

Disease information

Related information

Funtion Uniprot: Broad range protease inhibitor.

UniProt ID: Q14508

UniProt Link: https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/Q14508/entry

Molecular function from UniProt:

Tissue specificity from UniProt: Expressed in a number of normal tissues, including male reproductive system, regions of the respiratory tract and nasopharynx. Highly expressed in a number of tumors cells lines, such ovarian, colon, breast, lung and renal cells lines. Initially described as being exclusively transcribed in the epididymis.

Subcellular UniProt: #Secreted

Alternative name from UniProt:

Recommended name: WAP four-disulfide core domain protein 2

Gene name from HGNC: WFDC2 (dJ461P17.6, EDDM4, HE4, WAP5)

HPA class: Cancer-related genes

AlphaFold DB: Q14508

AlphaFold Link: https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/Q14508

HPA link: https://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000101443-WFDC2

Tissue specificity RNA from HPA: Tissue enhanced (cervix, salivary gland)

Tissue expression from HPA: Cytoplasmic expression in selected tissues.

Single cell type specificity Cell type enhanced (Club cells, Glandular and luminal cells, Basal respiratory cells, Urothelial cells, Endometrial ciliated cells, Respiratory ciliated cells, Collecting duct cells)

Immune cell specificity: Not detected in immune cells

Subcellular summary HPA Secreted

Cancer prognostic summary HPA Prognostic marker in glioma (unfavorable) and renal cancer (favorable)

Pathology link: https://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000101443-WFDC2/pathology

Pathology endo: https://www.proteinatlas.org/ENSG00000101443-WFDC2//pathology/endometrial+cancer

OMIM: 617548

OMIM link2: https://www.omim.org/entry/617548

HGNC ID: HGNC:15939

HGNC link: https://www.genenames.org/data/gene-symbol-report/#!/hgnc_id/HGNC:15939

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