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Here, we performed exome sequencing on 16 sporadic patients, aged 0.4 to 13.7 years diagnosed with isolated or complex PSIS. Growth hormone deficiency was isolated in 10 cases, or associated with thyrotropin deficiency in 6 others (isolated (2 cases), associated with adrenocorticotropin deficiency (1 case), gonadotropins deficiency (1 case), or multiple deficiencies (2 cases)). Additional phenotypic anomalies were present in six cases (37.5%) including four with ophthalmic disorders. In 13 patients variants were identified that may contribute to the phenotype. However, only a single individual carried a variant classified as pathogenic. This child presented with the typical clinical presentation of Okur-Chung neurodevelopmental syndrome due to a <jats:italic>CSNK2A1<\/jats:italic> missense variant. We also identified variants in the holoprosencephaly associated genes <jats:italic>GLI2<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>PTCH1<\/jats:italic>. A likely pathogenic novel splice site variant in the <jats:italic>GLI2<\/jats:italic> gene was observed in a child with PSIS and megacisterna magna. In the remaining 11 cases 26 variants in genes associated with pituitary development or function were identified and were classified of unknown significance. Compared with syndromic forms the diagnostic yield in the isolated forms of PSIS is low. Although we identified rare or novel missense variants in several hypogonadotropic hypogonadism genes (e.g. <jats:italic>FGF17<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>HS6ST1<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>KISS1R<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>CHD7<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>IL17RD<\/jats:italic>) definitively linking them to the PSIS phenotype is premature. 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