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Give a first insight into the evolution of the disease in a mainly pediatric population. To improve the standardization of the clinical management and further data collection of PHP patients we also introduce a possible flowchart for a common healthcare pathway.MethodsPatientsSince 1999, patients with clinical diagnosis of PHP, Biotin-VAD-FMK custom synthesis defined as rPTH (i.e. raised serum PTH levels, in presence of hyperphosphatemia and normo- or hypocalcaemia, despite normal renal function [16]) isolated or associated to rTSH or AHO signs, were collected countrywide by the main Italian referee Centers for Pediatric Endocrinology within the research project Molecular analysis of the GNAS gene in subjects with suspected PHP of the Study Group Endocrine diseases due to altered function of Gs protein of the Italian Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology (ISPED). DNA samples and clinical data PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26437915 were sent to the Department of Public Health and Pediatrics of the University of Turin, where the molecular analyses were performed by searching for mutations within the coding region and intron-exon boundaries of the GNAS gene.de Sanctis et al. Italian Journal of Pediatrics (2016) 42:Page 3 ofIn patients with wild-type GNAS sequence, the cooperation of the Endocrinology Unit at Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Policlinico – University of Milan allowed to expand the molecular diagnosis by further methylation analysis on the GNAS locus. The causal alteration was detected in a total of 74 subjects, from 69 unrelated families. The principal clinical features and the molecular characterization of the case series are presented in Tables 1, 2 and 3. Structural mutations in exons 1?3 were detected in 42 subjects (4 couples of siblings), thus diagnosed as PHP-Ia; in 4 patients (A17, A18, A45 and A46) the phenotype was characterized by early and widespread subcutaneous ossifications, raising a differential diagnosis with POH. Four other patients (A7, A12, A13 and A40). 2 of them siblings, harbored the mutation affecting the C-terminal region of the Gs protein (exon 13), associated to normal in vitro Gsa activity [6], allowing the definition of the more rarely described PHP-Ic. The pathogenicity of each variant was checked within the 1000 genomes database (www.internationalgenome.org) and the mutation nomenclature within the Leiden Open Variation Database (www.lovd.nl/3.0). All 28 patients with epigenetic alterations in the GNAS locus came from unrelated families. Altered methylation patterns in multiple DMRs were detected in most of them (n = 25, B1-25), allowing the diagnosis of sporadic PHP-Ib. In the 3 remaining patients (B26-28) a deletion on the STX16 gene responsible for the familial form of the disease (AD-PHP-Ib) has been identified. Clinical data at the time of the enrollment and during the follow-up period were collected through 2 different recording cards. The first one has been conceived to assess the typical PHP signs, leading to the clinical suspicion of the disease, i.e. the presence/absence of the AHO signs and of PTH and TSH resistances; subsequently, through a new research project, named Clinical Update about patients with PHP/AHO a new follow-up card has been drawn to collect further clinical details about patients with a confirmed molecular diagnosis. In PubMed ID:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27107493 particular it has been focused on the evolution of auxological parameters, on the possible late onset of some AHO signs and other hormone resistances, overall the less known ones. This second part of the study.