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PAHC, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina - Médico
LIM/42 - Laboratório de Hormônios e Genética Molecular, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
LIM/42 - Laboratório de Hormônios e Genética Molecular, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina
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- Spontaneous fertility in a male patient with testotoxicosis despite suppression of FSH levels(2018) CUNHA-SILVA, M.; BRITO, V. N.; MACEDO, D. B.; BESSA, D. S.; RAMOS, C. O.; LIMA, L. G.; BARROSO, P. S.; ARNHOLD, I. J. P.; SEGALOFF, D. L.; MENDONCA, B. B.; LATRONICO, A. C.Testotoxicosis is a rare cause of peripheral precocious puberty in boys caused by constitutively activating mutations of the LHCG receptor. Affected males usually have normal gonadotropin profiles and fertility in their adult life. Here, we described the long-term follow-up of a 24-year-old young man with severe testotoxicosis due to a de novo activating mutation in the third transmembrane helix of the LHCGR (p. Leu457Arg). This patient was treated with different medications, including medroxyprogesterone acetate, ketoconazole, cyproterone acetate and aromatase inhibitor from age 2.5 to 9.5 years. His basal and GnRH-stimulated gonadotropin levels were continually suppressed during and after medical treatment. At adulthood, extremely high serum testosterone levels (>35 nmol/L), undetectable gonadotropin levels (LH < 0.15 IU/L and FSH < 0.6 IU/L) and oligozoospermia were evidenced. Despite his suppressed FSH levels and an unfavorable spermogram, the patient fathered a healthy girl and biological paternity was confirmed through analysis of microsatellites. Spontaneous fertility in a young man with severe testotoxicosis and chronic suppression of FSH levels reinforces the key role of high intratesticular testosterone levels in human spermatogenesis.
- TCF12 haploinsufficiency causes autosomal dominant Kallmann syndrome and reveals network-level interactions between causal loci(2020) DAVIS, Erica E.; BALASUBRAMANIAN, Ravikumar; KUPCHINSKY, Zachary A.; KEEFE JR., David L.; PLUMMER, Lacey; KHAN, Kamal; MECZEKALSKI, Blazej; HEATH, Karen E.; LOPEZ-GONZALEZ, Vanesa; BALLESTA-MARTINEZ, Mary J.; MARGABANTHU, Gomathi; PRICE, Susan; GREENING, James; BRAUNER, Raja; VALENZUELA, Irene; CUSCO, Ivon; FERNANDEZ-ALVAREZ, Paula; WIERMAN, Margaret E.; LI, Taibo; LAGE, Kasper; BARROSO, Priscila Sales; CHAN, Yee-Ming; CROWLEY, William F.; KATSANIS, NicholasDysfunction of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) axis causes a range of reproductive phenotypes resulting from defects in the specification, migration and/or function of GnRH neurons. To identify additional molecular components of this system, we initiated a systematic genetic interrogation of families with isolated GnRH deficiency (IGD). Here, we report 13 families (12 autosomal dominant and one autosomal recessive) with an anosmic form of IGD (Kallmann syndrome) with loss-of-function mutations in TCF12, a locus also known to cause syndromic and non-syndromic craniosynostosis. We show that loss of tcf12 in zebrafish larvae perturbs GnRH neuronal patterning with concomitant attenuation of the orthologous expression of tcf3a/b, encoding a binding partner of TCF12, and stub1, a gene that is both mutated in other syndromic forms of IGD and maps to a TCF12 affinity network. Finally, we report that restored STUB1 mRNA rescues loss of tcf12 in vivo. Our data extend the mutational landscape of IGD, highlight the genetic links between craniofacial patterning and GnRH dysfunction and begin to assemble the functional network that regulates the development of the GnRH axis.