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ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology (2022) 19 1.5 | DOI: 10.1530/ey.19.1.5


Ann Neurol. 2021 Jul;90(1):143-158. doi: 10.1002/ana.26127. PMID: 33999436.

Brief Summary: This study identifies biallelic HID1 variants in 7 patients with hypopituitarism and infantile encephalopathy. It provides genetic and functional evidence for a novel gene-disease connection and expands the list of central nervous system diseases caused by impairment of the trans-Golgi network.

The authors describe 7 infants, 3 of whom had sadly died, with developmental delay, seizures, thin corpus callosum, brain atrophy, and hypopituitarism. The authors used whole exome sequencing to reveal the genetic cause and discovered that every patient harbored segregating, biallelic HID1 variants. The variants were either missense and likely pathogenic (according to the American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) criteria), frameshifts leading to a premature STOP codon, or located at a splice site. One of the variants was shown to reduce the extracellular acidification rate upon potassium chloride stimulation, which indicated impaired function of the trans-Golgi network.

The trans-Golgi network and HID1 (HID1 domain containing) are closely connected, for HID1 participates in the formation of neuropeptide- and peptide hormone-loaded vesicles via acidification of the network, a vital step for the secretion of the loads (1-3). They demonstrated the highest expression of HID1 in the brain and secretory tissues, especially in the pituitary in humans, and an increase in the brain expression with gestational age. They thus speculated that HID1 could play a role in brain development and the function of the neuronal and secretory cells. In fact, HID1 has been previously proposed to be a candidate gene for syndromic hypopituitarism (4), but no functional evidence on its connection to this phenotype had been provided.

In summary, these findings suggest that HID1 variants underlie a severe form of syndromic hypopituitarism, and that defects in this gene should be considered in the molecular genetic diagnosis of cases with early infantile encephalopathy and multiple pituitary hormone deficiencies.

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