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The genetic background of acromegaly.
(2017-02)
Acromegaly is caused by a somatotropinoma in the vast majority of the cases. These are monoclonal tumors that can occur sporadically or rarely in a familial setting. In the last few years, novel familial syndromes have ...
Fatal Carney Complex in Siblings Due to De Novo Large Gene Deletion.
(2017-11-01)
Context: Carney complex (CNC) is a rare multiple neoplasia syndrome involving cardiac, endocrine, neural, and cutaneous tumors and a variety of pigmented skin lesions. CNC can be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, ...
Somatic USP8 mutations are frequent events in corticotroph tumor progression causing Nelson's tumor.
(2018-01)
OBJECTIVE: Somatic mutations in the ubiquitin-specific protease 8 (USP8) gene are frequent in corticotroph tumors causing Cushing's disease (CD). Corticotroph tumor progression, the so-called Nelson's syndrome (NS), is a ...
Pituitary Carcinoma in a Patient with an SDHB Mutation.
(2017-12)
We present the first case of pituitary carcinoma occurring in a patient with a succinate dehydrogenase subunit B (SDHB) mutation and history of paraganglioma. She was initially treated for a glomus tumour with external ...
Novel FOXA2 mutation causes Hyperinsulinism, Hypopituitarism with Craniofacial and Endoderm-derived organ abnormalities.
(2017-11-15)
Congenital hypopituitarism (CH) is characterized by the deficiency of one or more pituitary hormones and can present alone or in association with complex disorders. Congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI) is a disorder of unregulated ...
Rings and Bricks: Expression of Cohesin Components is Dynamic during Development and Adult Life.
(2018-02-01)
Cohesin complex components exert fundamental roles in animal cells, both canonical in cell cycle and non-canonical in gene expression regulation. Germline mutations in genes coding for cohesins result in developmental ...
Novel AIP mutation in exon 6 causing acromegaly in a German family.
(2023-08)
The most frequent genetic alteration of familial isolated growth hormone producing pituitary neuroendocrine tumors is a germline mutation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein (AIP) gene. Various AIP mutations ...
Genetic Testing in Hereditary Pituitary Tumors.
(2023-12)
Genetic testing is becoming part of mainstream endocrinology. An increasing number of rare and not-so-rare endocrine diseases have an identifiable genetic cause, either at the germline or at the somatic level. Here we ...