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Most cases are sporadic, with few reports of familial cases, and many congenital hypopituitarism (CH) cases remain unsolved.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective<\/jats:title><jats:p>To search for candidate genes associated with this condition, we performed trio-based whole-exome sequencing (WES) on patients with EPP, including two familial cases.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study included subjects with EPP and PSIS diagnosed by a simple MRI protocol (FAST1.2). We performed two distinct analyses in the trio-based WES. We looked for previously described genes associated with pituitary development. Next, we investigated the whole exome for variants inherited in a pattern consistent with a monogenic etiology.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Ten families were evaluated; eight were composed of a child with EPP and healthy parents, one has two affected siblings, and one family has a son and mother with EPP. When analyzing the previously described candidate variants associated with pituitary development, we found variants in <jats:italic>GLI2<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>FGFR1<\/jats:italic> in three families. We also found six other variants of interest in three patients: <jats:italic>KMT2A<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>GALR3<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>RTN4R<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>SEMA3A<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>NIPBL<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>DSCAML1<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The analysis allowed us to find previously reported and not reported <jats:italic>GLI2<\/jats:italic> variants, all inherited from healthy parents, which reinforces the incomplete penetrance pattern of <jats:italic>GLI2<\/jats:italic> variants in the development of EPP and draws attention to possible future functional studies of those variants that have a recurrent expression in CH. We also found novel <jats:italic>FGFR1<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>SEMA3A<\/jats:italic> variants that suggest an oligogenic mechanism in PSIS and EPP, as seen in patients with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. We report the first case of a patient with Wiedemann-Steiner syndrome and PSIS, suggesting that the <jats:italic>KMT2A<\/jats:italic> gene may be related to pituitary development. Furthermore, the trios' analysis allowed us to find five other variants of interest. 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