Patients with acromegaly make too much growth hormone, which causes them to grow disproportionately large bones, organs and ...

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Girls are more often seen than boys, but patients from both sexes have been described (Figure 1). Figure 1: Familial and sporadic cases of gigantism and male and female growth patterns due to Xq26.3 ...

It is caused by microduplications at chromosome Xq26.3, first described in 13 subjects with early-onset gigantism. These microduplications span an area of 500 Kb containing 4 genes. Among these genes, ...

Colleen, from Virginia in the United States, suffers from a rare genetic condition called acromegaly or gigantism. The gene caused Charles Byrne, born in 1761 near Cookstown and known as the ...

He had an undiagnosed benign tumour of his pituitary gland, an adenoma, which caused acromegaly and gigantism. Science Photo Library John Hunter, the Scottish surgeon and anatomist who put Charles ...