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Compound Heterozygous Deletion of the PROP-1 Gene in Children with Combined Pituitary Hormone Deficiency

Endocrinology Research Center (O.V.F., V.A.P., I.I.D., N.P.G.), Research Center for Medical Genetics (O.V.E.), Moscow, Russia; Nagasaki University School of Medicine (N.T., E.K., S.Y.), Nagasaki, Japan; Department of Pediatrics (J.S.P., M.R.B.), Division of Endocrinology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia

Abstract

Mutations in the prophet of Pit-1 gene (PROP1) have been shown to be responsible for combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD) with deficiencies of growth hormone (GH), Prolactin (Prl), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and gonadotropins. We previously reported that homozygosity for a 2bp deletion in exon 2 (296delGA) accounted for CPHD in three patients from two Russian families. Here we report a second mutational hot spot in exon 2. This 2bp 149delGA deletion results in a frame shift that leads to the same serine to stop codon change at codon 109 (S109X). The predicted proteins are each truncated at residue 108 but diverge from the wild type sequence at different points in the homeodomain. Compound heterozygosity for the two mutations (149delGA/296delGA) was detected in 5 of 14 CPHD children from 4 families (36%). This provides the first evidence of heterozygosity for two common deletions as a cause of CPHD in Russian children.

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