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Aggressive pituitary adenomas occurring in young patients in a large Polynesian kindred with a germline R271W mutation in the AIP gene.
European journal of endocrinology - 1 Nov 2009
Jennings Juliet E, Georgitsi Marianthi, Holdaway Ian, Daly Adrian F, Tichomirowa Maria, Beckers Albert, Aaltonen Lauri A, Karhu Auli, Cameron Fergus J
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OBJECTIVE: Mutations in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein (AIP) were recently shown to confer a pituitary adenoma predisposition in patients with familial isolated pituitary adenomas (FIPA). We report a large Samoan FIPA kindred from Australia/New Zealand with an R271W mutation th...
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