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. 2023 Jul 5;14:1219018. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1219018

Table 1.

Human diseases associated with pituitary hypoplasia or deficiency.

congenital, syndromic hypopituitarism
disease cases per million inheritance hypothalamic-hypophyseal phenotype causative mutations/variants (potential)
HH signaling …
septo-optic dysplasia and its variants 100 AD, AR, multigenetic GHD, ACTHD, TSHD, GnRHD, DI ARNT2, BMP4, FGF8, FGFR1, HESX1, KAL1, OTX2, PAX6, PROKR2, SOX2 , SOX3, SHH , (GLI2) (7173) inactivation due to SHH, (GLI2) germline mutations (74)
holoprosencephaly 100 X-linked recessive, AD, AR GHD, ACTHD, TSHD, DI CDON , DISP1 , DLL1, FGF8, FOXH1, GAS1 , GLI2 , NODAL, PTCH1 , SHH , SIX3, TGIF, TDGF1, ZIC2 (35, 7584) … inactivation due to CDON, DISP1, GAS1, GLI2, PTCH1, SHH germline mutations (35, 7684)
GLI2 mutations 42 - 63 AD GHD, ACTHD GLI2 (85) … inactivation due to GLI2 germline mutations (85)
hypopituitarism with cerebellar abnormalities 2.7 - 6.4 AD GHD
panhypopituitarism
LHX4 (75) … is required for LHX3/LHX4 pituitary embryonic precursors (7)
hypopituitarism with spine abnormalities 1.5 - 5.4 AR GHD, ACTHD, TSHD, FSHD/LHD
panhypopituitarism
LHX3 (75)
pituitary stalk interruption syndrome (~1,000 cases) AD, AR GHD, ACTHD, TSHD, FSHD/LHD CDON , GPR161 , HESX1, HHAT , LHX4, OTX2, PROKR2, PTCH1 , PTCH2 , SOX3 (86) … inactivation due to CDON, GPR161, HHAT, PTCH1, PTCH2 germline mutations (86)
Pallister-Hall syndrome (~100 cases) AD GHD
panhypopituitarism
GLI3 (87) … inactivation due to GLI3 germline mutations (87)
isolated hormone deficiencies
isolated GHD 100 - 250 sporadic or 3-30% familial GHD GH1, GHRHR, GLI2 , HESX1, LHX4, OTX2, SOX3 (75, 85) … inactivation due to GLI2 germline mutation (85)
Kallmann syndrome 20 - 100 X-linked recessive AD, AR, oligogen LHD, FSHD CHD7, FGF8, FGFR1, KAL1, PROK2, PROKR2, SOX10, WDR11 (75) … inactivation due to WDR11 germline mutations (88, 89)
CHARGE syndrome 66 - 86 AD GHD, ACTHD, TSHD, FSHD/LHD CHD7 (90) … inactivation due to CHD7 mutations (91)
Wolfram Syndrome est. 1.3 - 2 AR DI WFS1 (92) (rarely CISD2) … inactivation due to Wfs1 mutation (93)

ACTHD, ACTH deficiency; AD, autosomal dominant; ADHD, ADH deficiency; AR, autosomal recessive; DI, diabetes insipidus; est., estimated; FSHD/LHD, FSH deficiency/LH deficiency; GHD, GH deficiency; GnRHD, GnRH deficiency; MSHD, MSH deficiency; OXTD, OXT deficiency; PRLD, PRL deficiency; TSHD, TSH deficiency.

Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome or PHACES (Posterior fossa anomalies, Hemangioma, Arterial anomalies, Cardiac anomalies, and Eye anomalies Syndrome), which are also associated with pituitary hypoplasia or deficiency, are not listed. Genes associated with HH signaling are highlighted in bold.