Growth hormone-producing pituitary gland adenoma

disease

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Also known as GH cell adenomagrowth hormone producing adenoma of pituitarygrowth hormone producing adenoma of pituitary glandgrowth hormone producing adenoma of the pituitary glandgrowth hormone producing pituitary adenomagrowth hormone producing pituitary gland adenomagrowth hormone secreting adenoma of pituitarygrowth hormone secreting adenoma of pituitary glandgrowth hormone secreting adenoma of the pituitarygrowth hormone secreting adenoma of the pituitary glandgrowth hormone secreting pituitary gland adenomagrowth hormone-producing adenomasomatotrope adenomaSomatotrophinoma

Summary

Growth hormone-producing pituitary gland adenoma (MONDO:0006238) is a cancer. A subtype of pituitary gland adenoma — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).

At a glance

Classification: Cancer

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

Field	Value
Canonical name	growth hormone-producing pituitary gland adenoma
Mondo ID	MONDO:0006238
EFO	EFO:1000287
Orphanet	96256
DOID	DOID:6255
NCIT	C7461
SNOMED CT	254957009
UMLS	C0278864
MedGen	82999
GARD	0016850
Anatomy (UBERON)	UBERON:0000007
Is cancer (heuristic)	yes

Also known as: GH cell adenoma · growth hormone producing adenoma of pituitary · growth hormone producing adenoma of pituitary gland · growth hormone producing adenoma of the pituitary gland · growth hormone producing pituitary adenoma · growth hormone producing pituitary gland adenoma · growth hormone secreting adenoma of pituitary · growth hormone secreting adenoma of pituitary gland · growth hormone secreting adenoma of the pituitary · growth hormone secreting adenoma of the pituitary gland · growth hormone secreting pituitary gland adenoma · growth hormone-producing adenoma · growth hormone-producing pituitary gland adenoma · somatotrope adenoma · Somatotrophinoma

Disease family

This is a subtype of pituitary gland adenoma. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › cancer or benign tumor › neoplastic disease or syndrome › neoplasm › epithelial neoplasm › adenoma › pituitary gland adenoma › growth hormone-producing pituitary gland adenoma

Subtypes (1): growth hormone secreting pituitary adenoma 1

Genetics & variants

GWAS landscape

No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.

Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers

No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.

Genes & proteins

No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).

Function

No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.

Therapeutics

No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.

No linked Atlas pages yet — the cross-entity mesh grows as the corpus expands.