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combined or isolated pituitary growth hormone deficiency 7

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A combined pituitary hormone deficiency that has_material_basis_in compound heterozygous mutation in the RNPC3 gene on chromosome 1p21.

Signs and symptoms

  • Microcephaly
  • Anterior pituitary hypoplasia
  • Delayed skeletal maturation
  • Short stature
  • Decreased response to growth hormone stimulation test
  • Postnatal growth retardation
  • Frontal bossing
  • Truncal obesity
  • Abdominal obesity

Also known as: IGHD5; Isolated growth hormone deficiency type V