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We sequenced and by employing multiple data analysis methods studied the exomes of 15 PitNET patients to improve discovery of novel factors involved in PitNET development. PitNET patients were recruited to the study before PitNET removal surgery. For each patient, two samples for DNA extraction were acquired: venous blood and PitNET tissue. Exome sequencing was performed using Illumina NexSeq 500 sequencer and data analyzed using two separate workflows and variant calling algorithms: GATK and Strelka2. A combination of two data analysis pipelines discovered 144 PitNET specific somatic variants (mean = 9.6, range 0\u201319 per PitNET) of which all were SNVs. Also, we detected previously known<jats:italic>GNAS<\/jats:italic>PitNET mutation and identified somatic variants in 11 genes, which have contained somatic variants in previous WES and WGS studies of PitNETs. Noteworthy, this is the third study detecting somatic variants in gene<jats:italic>RYR1<\/jats:italic>in the exomes of PitNETs. In conclusion, we have identified two novel PitNET candidate genes (<jats:italic>AC002519<\/jats:italic>.<jats:italic>6<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>AHNAK<\/jats:italic>) with recurrent somatic variants in our PitNET cohort and found 13 genes overlapping from previous PitNET studies that contain somatic variants. 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