Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Pituitary gigantism is a rare disorder caused by GH-secreting lesions.Aim: We studied gigantism for genetic defects.Methods: We performed genome-wide analyses in 46 patients with gigantism and 248 patients with acromegaly.Results: We detected a novel microduplication at chromosome Xq26.3 in two unrelated kindreds and 13 sporadic cases de novo. All patients had disease onset before five ...

X-linked acro-gigantism (X-LAG) is a rare novel genomic syndrome of pituitary gigantism that has a typical onset within the first year of life in children of normal or even low birth weight. X-LAG patients have a microduplications on chromosome Xq26.3 that includes a gene GPR101, which is highly upregulated in pituitary tumor tissue of affected patients. We performed a study of all 18 known X-LAG syndrome patients currently in the NICHD-University of Liège databa...