Pituitary adenoma, growth hormone-secreting, 2

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Also known as GPR101 pituitary gland adenomaPAGH2PITA2pituitary adenoma 2, GH-secretingpituitary adenoma, Growth hormone-secreting, type 2pituitary gland adenoma caused by mutation in GPR101

Summary

Pituitary adenoma, growth hormone-secreting, 2 (MONDO:0010492) is a cancer caused by GPR101 (GenCC Strong), with 1 cohort gene.

At a glance

  • Classification: Cancer
  • Causal gene: GPR101 (GenCC Strong)
  • Cohort genes: 1
  • ClinVar variants: 4

Clinical features

No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.

Identifiers

Disease identifiers

FieldValue
Canonical namepituitary adenoma, growth hormone-secreting, 2
Mondo IDMONDO:0010492
OMIM300943
DOIDDOID:0112007
UMLSC4012409
MedGen860846
GARD0015274
Is cancer (heuristic)yes

Also known as: GPR101 pituitary gland adenoma · PAGH2 · PITA2 · pituitary adenoma 2, GH-secreting · pituitary adenoma, growth hormone-secreting, 2 · pituitary adenoma, Growth hormone-secreting, type 2 · pituitary gland adenoma caused by mutation in GPR101

Data availability: 4 ClinVar variants · 1 GenCC gene-disease record.

Disease family

Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › cancer or benign tumorneoplastic disease or syndromeneoplasm › epithelial neoplasm › adenomapituitary gland adenomafamilial isolated pituitary adenomapituitary adenoma, growth hormone-secreting, 2

Related subtypes (5): growth hormone secreting pituitary adenoma 1, Cushing disease due to pituitary adenoma, prolactin-producing pituitary gland adenoma, pituitary adenoma 5, multiple types, pituitary adenoma 3, multiple types

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

ClinVar germline variants

4 retrieved; paginated sample, class counts are floors:

2 uncertain significance, 1 conflicting classifications of pathogenicity, 1 pathogenic

ClinVarVariant (HGVS)GeneClassificationReview
192259NM_054021.2(GPR101):c.1098C>A (p.Asp366Glu)GPR101Pathogenicno assertion criteria provided
167871NM_054021.2(GPR101):c.924G>C (p.Glu308Asp)GPR101Conflicting classifications of pathogenicitycriteria provided, conflicting classifications
2252347NM_054021.2(GPR101):c.1493T>C (p.Ile498Thr)GPR101Uncertain significancecriteria provided, multiple submitters, no conflicts
3893147NM_054021.2(GPR101):c.677T>C (p.Leu226Pro)GPR101Uncertain significancecriteria provided, single submitter

Genes & proteins

Mendelian disease overlap and somatic drivers

GenCC: 2 · Orphanet: 1 · OMIM-shared: 0 · Dual-evidence (GWAS+Mendelian): 0

GenCC gene–disease validity (cohort genes)

the Disease column is the GenCC-asserted condition — a cohort gene’s strongest validity may be for a related predisposition syndrome.

GeneClassificationInheritanceDiseaseRecords
GPR101StrongX-linkedpituitary adenoma, growth hormone-secreting, 22

Orphanet rare-disease linkage (cohort genes)

GeneOrphanet IDRare disease
GPR101Orphanet:963Acromegaly

Cohort genes → proteins

1 cohort genes, 1 distinct canonical proteins.

Evidence partition

SubsetGenes
multi_evidence1

Cohort genes (full)

SymbolHGNCEnsemblUniProtNameEvidence
GPR101HGNC:14963ENSG00000165370Q96P66Probable G-protein coupled receptor 101gencc,clinvar

Cohort function summary

Lead sentence per gene, UniProt-curated.

SymbolProtein nameFunction (lead sentence)
GPR101Probable G-protein coupled receptor 101Orphan receptor.

Protein-family classification

Druggable: 1 · Difficult: 0 · Unknown: 0 · Druggable fraction: 1.0

Family distribution

Cohort families vs a genome-wide background (hypergeometric, BH-FDR; fold = observed/expected). Counts kept; sorted by enrichment, so the catch-all Other/Unknown bucket no longer leads.

FamilyGenesFoldFDR
GPCR123.9×0.042

Per-gene assignment

SymbolFamilyDruggable?ECInterPro (top 3)
GPR101GPCRyesGPCR_Rhodpsn, GPCR_Rhodpsn_7TM

Expression context

Cohort genes with no expression data: 0.

1 cohort gene are a single-cell marker in ≥1 SCXA experiment.

Breadth distribution (Bgee present_calls)

BucketGenes
narrow (1-5 tissues)0
moderate (6-20)0
broad (>20)1
unknown0

Top tissues across cohort

TissueCohort genes
caudate nucleus1
hypothalamus1
nucleus accumbens1

Per-gene tissue summary (top 30)

SymbolBgee breadthFANTOM5 breadthSCXATop tissues
GPR10123tissue_specificmarkernucleus accumbens, caudate nucleus, hypothalamus

Protein interactions among cohort

Intra-cohort edges: 0.

Hub genes (top 10 by interactor count)

SymbolInteractor count
GPR101837

Structural data

PDB: 1 · AlphaFold-only: 0 · No structure: 0

Cohort genes with PDB structures (top 30)

SymbolUniProtPDB entries
GPR101Q96P663

Function

Pathway analysis

Distinct Reactome pathways touched by cohort: 0. Enrichment computed across 1 evidence-associated genes (0 with Reactome annotation).

GO biological processes by enrichment

Over-representation of cohort genes vs the genome-wide background (hypergeometric test, Benjamini-Hochberg FDR; fold = observed/expected over 1 annotated cohort genes). Counts and members are kept as ground-truth; sorted by enrichment.

GO termCohort genesFoldFDRSample cohort genes
adenylate cyclase-activating adrenergic receptor signaling pathway11203.7×0.002GPR101
positive regulation of MAPK cascade180.6×0.012GPR101

Therapeutics

Drug target analysis

Approved (phase 4): 0 · Phase ≥3: 0 · Phased (≥1): 0 · Undrugged: 1

Druggability breadth: 1 of 1 evidence-associated genes (100%) have a ChEMBL target (buckets above are over the deeply-mined display cohort).

Top cohort targets by molecule count

SymbolMoleculesMax phase
GPR10100

Bioactivity and enzyme data

Enzyme cohort genes (≥1 EC): 0.

Cohort genes with ChEMBL bioactivity (full, sorted by assay count)

SymbolAssaysType breakdown
GPR1012Binding:2

Pharmacogenomics

Cohort genes with a PharmGKB record: 1; with CPIC/DPWG dosing guidelines: 0.

No cohort gene has a CPIC/DPWG genotype-guided dosing guideline (PharmGKB).

Drug repurposing candidates

0 approved/phased drugs hit cohort targets but don’t yet appear in disease-level clinical trials. Target-inhibition rationale is strongest for cancer driver genes; a bioactivity hit is a screening signal, not a treatment claim.

Druggability pyramid

Cohort genes binned by druggability tier (high → low):

TierDefinitionGenesSymbols
AApproved (phase 4 drug)0
BPhased (≥1) drug, not yet approved0
CDruggable family + PDB, no drug1GPR101
DDruggable family + AlphaFold only, no drug0
EDifficult family or no structure, no drug0

Undrugged target profiles

1 cohort genes are undrugged. Ranked by ‘starting-point quality’ (assay depth + drugged-partner adjacency).

SymbolChEMBL assaysDrugged partners (top 3)
GPR1012

Clinical trials & evidence

Clinical trials

Clinical trials: 0.