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  • Publication
    A Case of Short Stature Presenting with Multiple Exocytosis
    (2022-09-01) DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; Kaygusuz S. B. , Gokoglu M., DEMİRCİOĞLU S.
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    RASopatilerin moleküler genetik özellikleri
    (2022-06-01) DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; Yavaş Abalı Z., Demircioğlu S.
    RASopatiler, RAS/MAPK yolağının bileşenlerini kodlayan genlerdeki patojenik değişimler sonucu ortaya çıkan ve ortak klinik özellikleri olan bir hastalık grubunu tanımlar. Noonan sendromu (NS) en sık görülen ve en bilinen RASopati olmakla birlikte, Noonan sendromu-multipl lentigines (NS-ML), kardiyofasiyokutanöz sendrom (KFKS), Costello sendromu (CS), nörofibromatozis tip 1 (NF1), Legius sendromu (LS) gibi sendromlar bu gruba dahil edilmektedir. Günümüzde RAS/MAPK yolağında RASopati veya Noonan spektrumu bozukluklara yol açan çok sayıda gen bildirilmiştir. Yeni nesil dizileme tekniklerindeki ilerlemeler ile de bu fenotipe yol açan pek çok yeni gen tanımlanmaktadır. Bu sendrom grubunu tanımlayan ortak bazı klinik özellikler olsa da genetik ve allelik heterojenite sınıflandırmayı zorlaştırmaktadır. Bu bölümde, RAS/MAPK yolağı ile RASopatilere yol açan farklı genlerin özellikleri ve bu hastalıklardaki genotip-fenotip ilişkisi anlatılmıştır.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Homozygosity for a novel INHA mutation in two male siblings with hypospadias, primary hypogonadism, and high-normal testicular volume
    (2022-03-23) ŞAHİN, BAHADIR; DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; BEREKET, ABDULLAH; GÜRAN, TÜLAY; Arslan Ateş E., Eltan M., Sahin B., Gurpinar Tosun B., Seven Menevse T., Geckinli B. B., Greenfield A., Turan S., Bereket A., Güran T.
    Background: The human INHA gene encodes the inhibin subunit alpha protein, which is common to both inhibin A and B. The functional importance of inhibins in male sex development, sexual function, and reproduction remain largely unknown. Objective: We report for the first time two male siblings with homozygous INHA mutations. Methods: The medical files were examined for clinical, biochemical, and imaging data. Genetic analysis was performed using next-generation and Sanger sequencing methods. Results: Two brothers complained of gynecomastia, testicular pain, and had a history of hypospadias. Biochemistry revealed low serum testosterone, high gonadotropin and anti-Mullerian hormone, and very low/undetectable inhibin concentrations, where available. Both patients had azoospermia in the spermiogram. We have identified a homozygous 2 bp deletion (c.208_209delAG, R70Gfs*3) variant, which leads to a truncated INHA protein in both patients, and confirmed heterozygosity in the parents. The external genital development, pubertal onset and progression, reproductive functions, serum gonadotropins, and sex hormones of mother and father, who were heterozygous carriers of the identified mutation, were normal. Conclusion: Homozygosity for INHA mutations causes decreased prenatal and postnatal testosterone production and infertility in males, while the heterozygous female and male carriers of INHA mutations do not have any abnormality in sex development and reproduction.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    A novel deletion involving the first GNAS exon encoding Gsα causes PHP1A without methylation changes at exon A/B
    (2022-04-01) BEREKET, ABDULLAH; DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; GÜRAN, TÜLAY; Campbell D., Reyes M., Kaygusuz S. B., Abalı S., Güran T., Bereket A., Kagami M., Turan S., Jüppner H.
    © 2022Individuals affected by pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1A (PHP1A) display hyperphosphatemia and hypocalcemia despite elevated PTH levels, as well as features of Albright Hereditary Osteodystrophy (AHO). PHP1A is caused by variants involving the maternal GNAS exons 1–13 encoding the stimulatory G protein α-subunit (Gsα). MLPA and aCGH analysis led in a male PHP1A patient to identification of a de novo 1284-bp deletion involving GNAS exon 1. This novel variant overlaps with a previously identified 1438-bp deletion in another PHP1A patient (ref. Li et al. (2020) [13], patient 2) that extends from the exon 1 promoter into the up-stream intronic region. This latter deletion is associated with reduced methylation at GNAS exon A/B, i.e. the differentially methylated region (DMR) that is demethylated in most pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1B (PHP1B) patients. In contrast, genomic DNA from our patient revealed no evidence for an epigenetic GNAS defect as determined by MS-MLPA and pyrosequencing. These findings thus reduce the region, which, in addition to other nucleotide sequences telomeric of exon A/B, may undergo histone modifications or interacts with transcription factors and possibly as-yet unknown proteins that are required for establishing the maternal methylation imprints at this site. Taken together, nucleotide deletions or changes within an approximately 1300-bp region telomeric of exon A/B could be a cause of PHP1B variants with complete or incomplete loss-of-methylation at the exon A/B DMR. In addition, when investigating patients with suspected PHP1A, MLPA should be considered to search for structural abnormalities within this difficult to analyze genomic region comprising GNAS exon 1.
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    Change of menarcheal age in schoolgirls living in Istanbul over the last 12 years
    (2022-09-01) GÜRAN, TÜLAY; GÜRPINAR TOSUN, BUŞRA; HALİLOĞLU, BELMA; DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; HIDIROĞLU, SEYHAN; BEREKET, ABDULLAH; GÜRAN T., Alir F., Arslan Y. T. , Molla G., Sahin B., Sayar M. E. , Atay Z., Helvacioglu D., GÜRPINAR TOSUN B., HALİLOĞLU B., et al.
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    Breast ultrasonography: How useful in the diagnosis of precocious puberty?
    (2022-09-01) BIYIKLI, ERHAN; BUĞDAYCI, ONUR; DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; GÜRAN, TÜLAY; BEREKET, ABDULLAH; Helvacioglu D., BIYIKLI E., BUĞDAYCI O., DEMİRCİOĞLU S., GÜRAN T., BEREKET A.
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    Challenges in the management of a 7 years old child with thyrotropin-secreting pituitary adenoma and the review of the literature
    (2023-01-01) KIRKGÖZ, TARIK; GÜRPINAR TOSUN, BUŞRA; ELTAN, MEHMET; HALİLOĞLU, BELMA; KAYGUSUZ, SARE BETÜL; SEVEN MENEVŞE, TUBA; BOZKURT, SÜHEYLA; ÖNEŞ, TUNÇ; GÜRAN, TÜLAY; DAĞÇINAR, ADNAN; BEREKET, ABDULLAH; DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; KIRKGÖZ T., Abali S., Seker A., GÜRPINAR TOSUN B., ELTAN M., Helvacioglu D., HALİLOĞLU B., KAYGUSUZ S. B., Yavas Abali Z., SEVEN MENEVŞE T., et al.
    Introduction: Thyrotropin-producing pituitary adenoma (TSHoma) is a very rare disease, representing less than 1% of the pituitary tumours, present with elevated thyroid hormones and normal/high TSH concentrations. Case Presentation: A 7-year-old boy with nervousness was referred by his psychiatrist for elevated free T4, T3 and TSH levels. Initial evaluation revealed an elevated -subunit.Pituitary MRI demonstrated a macroadenoma. The patient underwent a trans-sphenoidal tumour resection (TSS) which showed positive immunohistochemical staining for TSH, growth hormone, and prolactin in tumoral tissue. Euthyroidism was achieved for one year after TSS, then, recurrence of tumour with elevated TSH and thyroid hormone levels necessitated a re-operation with TSS followed by gamma-knife radiosurgery. The euthyroid state was achieved and lasted for 2.5 years this time, but, due to the recurrence, medical treatment had been commenced with cabergoline and octreotide. Euthyroidism was maintained for the last 4 years on monthly octreotide treatment. A repeat MRI demonstrated no pituitary mass but a mass in the sphenoidal sinus had been detected. Removal of this mass by surgery did not achieve euthyroidism. 68Ga-DOTA-TATE PET/CT showed residual tissue extending from the pituitary region to the sphenoid sinus.The patient\"s bone age was advanced 2 years at diagnosis which became 4 years in one year after the diagnosis and remained so throughout follow-up, leading to a final height of -3.3 SDS below his target height at the age of 16 years. Conclusion: The diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of TSHomas are challenging and short stature due to accelerated bone maturation is a complication of paediatric TSHomas.
  • PublicationOpen Access
    Dysosteosclerosis: Clinical and radiological evolution reflecting genetic heterogeneity
    (2022-08-01) DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; GÜRPINAR TOSUN, BUŞRA; GÜRAN, TÜLAY; BEREKET, ABDULLAH; ALAVANDA, CEREN; ARMAN, AHMET; DEMİRCİOĞLU S., Mumm S., ALAVANDA C., Kaygusuz B. S., GÜRPINAR TOSUN B., ARMAN A., Huskey M., GÜRAN T., Duan S., BEREKET A., et al.
    Dysosteosclerosis (DSS), the term coined in 1968 for ultrarare dysplasia of the skeleton featuring platyspondyly with focal appendicular osteosclerosis, has become generic by encompassing the genetic heterogeneity recently reported for this phenotype. We studied four unrelated Turkish patients with DSS to advance understanding of the new nosology. Patient 1 suffered femur fractures beginning at age 1 year. DSS was suspected from marked metaphyseal osteosclerosis in early childhood and subsequently platyspondyly accompanying patchy osteosclerosis of her appendicular skeleton. She harbored in SLC29A3, in 2012 the first gene associated with DSS, a unique homozygous duplication (c.303_320dup, p.102_107dupYFESYL). Patient 2 presented similarly with fractures and metaphyseal osteosclerosis but with no platyspondyly at age 2 months. She was homozygous for a novel nonsense mutation in SLC29A3 (c.1284C>G, p.Tyr428*). Patient 3 had ocular disease at age 2 years, presented for short stature at age 11 years, and did not begin to fracture until age 16 years. Radiographs showed mild platyspondyly and focal metaphyseal and femoral osteosclerosis. She was homozygous for a unique splice site mutation in TNFRSF11A (c.616+3A>G). Patient 4 at age 2 years manifested developmental delay and frequent infections but did not fracture. He had unique metadiaphyseal splaying and osteosclerosis, vertebral end-plate osteosclerosis, and cortical thinning of long bones but no mutation was detected of SLC29A3, TNFRSF11A, TCIRG1, LRRK1, or CSF1R associated with DSS. We find that DSS from defective SLC29A3 presents earliest and with fractures. DSS from compromised TNFRSF11A can lead to optic atrophy as an early finding. Negative mutation analysis in patient 4 suggests further genetic heterogeneity underlying the skeletal phenotype of DSS. (c) 2022 The Authors. JBMR Plus published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
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    Low-dose ACTH Stimulation Test: Comparison of Cortisol Response at 30, 40, and 60 Minutes
    (2022-09-01) GÜRAN, TÜLAY; GÜRPINAR TOSUN, BUŞRA; ARIKAN, HAZAL; DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; BEREKET, ABDULLAH; GÜRPINAR TOSUN B., ARIKAN H., DEMİRCİOĞLU S., BEREKET A., GÜRAN T.
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    A rare cause of monogenic obesity: Schaaf-Yang syndrome due to a novel MAGEL2 gene variant
    (2022-09-01) GÜRAN, TÜLAY; DEMİRCİOĞLU, SERAP; BEREKET, ABDULLAH; Abali Z. Y. , Ates E. A. , GÜRAN T., BEREKET A., DEMİRCİOĞLU S.