Neurohypophysis granular cell tumor

disease
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Also known as granular cell tumor of Neurohypophysisgranular cell tumor of the neurohypophysisgranular cell tumor of the Neurohypophysis (WHO grade I)granular cell tumor of the posterior pituitary glandgranular cell tumour of Neurohypophysisgranular cell tumour of the neurohypophysisgranular cell tumour of the Neurohypophysis (WHO grade I)granular cell tumour of the posterior pituitary gland

Summary

Neurohypophysis granular cell tumor (MONDO:0003256) is a cancer. A subtype of posterior pituitary gland neoplasm — 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

FieldValue
Canonical nameneurohypophysis granular cell tumor
Mondo IDMONDO:0003256
EFOEFO:1000285
DOIDDOID:5047
NCITC7017
SNOMED CT699331002
UMLSC1333873
MedGen232255
GARD0023427
Anatomy (UBERON)UBERON:0002198
Is cancer (heuristic)yes

Also known as: granular cell tumor of Neurohypophysis · granular cell tumor of neurohypophysis · granular cell tumor of the neurohypophysis · granular cell tumor of the Neurohypophysis (WHO grade I) · granular cell tumor of the posterior pituitary gland · granular cell tumour of Neurohypophysis · granular cell tumour of neurohypophysis · granular cell tumour of the neurohypophysis · granular cell tumour of the Neurohypophysis (WHO grade I) · granular cell tumour of the posterior pituitary gland · neurohypophysis granular cell tumor

Disease family

This is a subtype of posterior pituitary gland neoplasm. 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 tumorneoplastic disease or syndromeneoplasmendocrine gland neoplasmpituitary tumorposterior pituitary gland neoplasmneurohypophysis granular cell tumor

Related subtypes (3): pituitary stalk meningioma, pituicytoma, spindle cell oncocytoma

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.