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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 364, Issue 23, Pages 2218-2226Publisher
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1012717
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The skeletal dysplasia characteristic of acrodysostosis resembles the Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy seen in patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a, but defects in the a-stimulatory subunit of the G-protein (GNAS), the cause of pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a, are not present in patients with acrodysostosis. We report a germ-line mutation in the gene encoding PRKAR1A, the cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent regulatory subunit of protein kinase A, in three unrelated patients with acrodysostosis and resistance to multiple hormones. The mutated subunit impairs the protein kinase A response to stimulation by cAMP; this explains our patients' hormone resistance and the similarities of their skeletal abnormalities with those observed in patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a.
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