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Combined pituitary hormone deficiency and pituitary hypoplasia due to a mutation of the Pit-1 gene.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 May 2000
Frisch H, Kim C, Häusler G, Pfäffle R
Abstract excerpt
Several mutations of the pituitary-specific transcription factor Pit-1 have been identified. We describe a girl with a mutation of the Pit-1 gene leading to a complete lack of GH, TSH and prolactin and a marked hypoplasia of the anterior pituitary gland. The patient had a homozygous nonsense-mutation at position 172 (CGA to TGA), converting arginine into a stop codon, leading to an early termination of protein...
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