Journal
CLINICAL GENETICS
Volume 78, Issue 5, Pages 457-463Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01406.x
Keywords
acromegaly; AIP; FIPA; multiple endocrine neoplasia; prolactinoma; tumor suppressor genes
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- NIH Clinical Center outpatient clinics
- United States National Institutes of Health
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) [Z01-HD-000642-04]
- Fonds d'Investissement pour la Recherche Scientifiqu
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The prevalence of germline mutations in MEN1, AIP, PRKAR1A, CDKN1B and CDKN2CI is unknown among pediatric patients with pituitary adenomas (PA). In this study, we screened children with PA for mutations in these genes; somatic GNAS mutations were also studied in a limited number of growth hormone (GH) or prolactin (PRL)-secreting PA. We studied 74 and 6 patients with either isolated Cushing disease (CD) or GH- or PRL-secreting PA, respectively. We also screened four pediatric patients with CD, and four with GH/PRL-secreting tumors who had some syndromic features. There was one AIP mutation (p.Lys103Arg) among 74 CD patients. Two MEN1 mutations that occurred in patients with recurrent or difficult-to-treat disease were found among patients with CD. There was one MEN1 and three AIP mutations (p.Gln307ProfsX104, p.Pro114fsX, p.Lys241X) among pediatric patients with isolated GH- or PRL-secreting PA and one additional MEN1 mutation in a patient with positive family history. There were no mutations in the PRKAR1A, CDKN1B, CDKN2C or GNAS genes. Thus, germline AIP or MEN1 gene mutations are frequent among pediatric patients with GH- or PRL-secreting PA but are significantly rarer in pediatric CD; PRKAR1A mutations are not present in PA outside of Carney complex.
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