ALK

 

Full name: ALK receptor tyrosine kinase Alias Symbol: CD246
Type: protein-coding gene Cytoband: 2p23.2-p23.1
Entrez ID: 238 HGNC ID: HGNC:427 Ensembl Gene: ENSG00000171094 OMIM ID: 105590
Drug and gene relationship at DGIdb
Screen Evidence:
  • This gene has been idenfitied as a common driver in this paper.
  • Knocking out of this gene by CRIPR/Cas9 screen found altered tolerance on DNA toxicity in Genotoxic Screens.

 

ALK involved pathways:

KEGG pathway Description View
hsa05223Non-small cell lung cancer

 

Expression of ALK:

 

Dataset Gene EntrezID Probe Log2FC Adj.pValue Expression
GSE17351 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.6840 0.0696
GSE20347 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.1750 0.0179
GSE23400 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.1269 0.0136
GSE26886 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.0417 0.8291
GSE29001 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.3289 0.1372
GSE38129 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.2424 0.0039
GSE45670 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.0458 0.8076
GSE53622 ALK 238 107522 -0.5009 0.0036
GSE53624 ALK 238 107522 -0.1218 0.2687
GSE63941 ALK 238 208212_s_at 0.1636 0.8407
GSE77861 ALK 238 208212_s_at -0.3160 0.0614
SRP133303 ALK 238 RNAseq -1.3904 0.0012
TCGA ALK 238 RNAseq -1.1422 0.0405

Upregulated datasets: 0; Downregulated datasets: 2.  


 

Survival by ALK expression:

 

GSE53622GSE53624TCGA

 

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Copy number change of ALK:

 

Dataset Gene EntrezID Gain Loss Normal Detail
GSE15526 ALK 238 11 2 17
GSE20123 ALK 238 11 2 17
GSE43470 ALK 238 3 1 39
GSE46452 ALK 238 2 4 53
GSE47630 ALK 238 8 0 32
GSE54993 ALK 238 0 6 64
GSE54994 ALK 238 10 0 43
GSE60625 ALK 238 0 3 8
GSE74703 ALK 238 3 0 33
GSE74704 ALK 238 9 1 10
TCGA ALK 238 36 2 58

Total number of gains: 93; Total number of losses: 21; Total Number of normals: 374.  


 

Somatic mutations of ALK:

 

Generating mutation plots.

 

Highly correlated genes for ALK:

 

Showing top 20/474 corelated genes with mean PCC>0.5.
Gene1 Gene2 Mean PCC Num. Datasets Num. PCC<0 Num. PCC>0.5
ALKFAM95B10.714896303
ALKEVPLL0.692159303
ALKLIPF0.679469303
ALKDCTN20.674489403
ALKTRIM150.671911605
ALKONECUT30.670769303
ALKEZR0.665713403
ALKSFTA20.663099303
ALKZNF5360.656882303
ALKVRTN0.655749505
ALKC5orf66-AS10.645529303
ALKCACFD10.645314404
ALKTAS2R90.642563303
ALKCIITA0.640257303
ALKACTL6B0.638777303
ALKSPINK70.637679303
ALKKNG10.636489303
ALKGAB20.636272404
ALKTP53INP20.635227303
ALKA2ML10.633767303

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