Choroideremia and hypopituitarism: an association

Am J Med Genet. 1989 Dec;34(4):511-3. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.1320340411.

Abstract

Choroideremia is a rare X-linked, progressive, degenerative disease of the retina and choroid. We describe 2 patients, one a female, with choroideremia documented to have hypopituitarism and neurological abnormalities. We hypothesize that this previously undescribed association results from a degenerative process involving tissues of neural origin, or from contiguous submicroscopic gene deletions in the X chromosome region that define choroideremia and possibly hypopituitarism.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Choroideremia / complications
  • Choroideremia / genetics*
  • Chromosome Deletion*
  • Female
  • Genetic Linkage*
  • Humans
  • Hypopituitarism / complications
  • Hypopituitarism / genetics*
  • Male
  • X Chromosome*