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The current study was designed to identify and characterize <jats:italic>NPR2<\/jats:italic> loss-of-function mutations in patients with AMDM and to explore therapeutic responses to recombinant growth hormone (rhGH). <jats:italic>NPR2<\/jats:italic> was sequenced in two Chinese patients with AMDM via next generation sequencing, and in silico structural analysis or transcript analysis of two novel variants was performed to examine putative protein changes. rhGH treatment was started for patient 1. Three <jats:italic>NPR2<\/jats:italic> mutations were identified in two unrelated cases: two compound heterozygous mutations c.1112G&amp;gt;A p.(Arg371Gln) and c.2887+2T&amp;gt;C in patient 1 and a homozygous mutation c.329G&amp;gt;A p.(Arg110His) in patient 2, yielding distinct phenotypes. RNA extracted from peripheral blood cells of patient 1 showed alternatively spliced transcripts not present in control cells. Homology modeling analyses suggested that the c.1112G&amp;gt;A p.(Arg371Gln) mutation disrupted the binding of NPR-B homodimer to its ligand (C-type natriuretic peptide) in the extracellular domain as a result of global allosteric effects on homodimer formation. Thus, c.2887+2T&amp;gt;C and c.1112G&amp;gt;A p.(Arg371Gln) in <jats:italic>NPR2<\/jats:italic> were loss-of-function mutations. Furthermore, rhGH therapy in patient 1 increased the patient\u2019s height by 0.6SDS over 15\u00a0months without adversely affecting the trunk-leg proportion. The short-term growth-promoting effect was equivalent to that reported for idiopathic short stature. 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