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Alejandro Diaz1, Marco Danon, John Crawford
1Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
Abstract:
It has been more than seven decades since Drs. Fuller Albright and Donovan McCune published the first reports on individuals with McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS). Since then, the classic triad of precocious puberty, café-aulait spots, and polyostotic bone dysplasia continues to define the syndrome. However, having gathered a better picture of the pathophysiology of MAS, the way this condition is understood has changed. Isolated activating mutations of the alpha subunit of the G protein (GNAS1) have been found in different tissues, including pituitary adenomas, thyroid adenomas, ovarian cysts, monostotic bone dysplasia, and the adrenal glands, to name a few. For this reason, we have added 'and disorders due to activating mutations of GNAS1' to the title of this review. We discuss here the clinical consequences of GNAS1 activating mutations in different body systems and organs, the diagnostic approach to MAS, and the current therapeutic recommendations.
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