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A germline mutation of the thyrotropin receptor gene associated with thyrotoxicosis and mitral valve prolapse in a Chinese family.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Apr 1999
Khoo D H, Parma J, Rajasoorya C, Ho S C, Vassart G
Abstract excerpt
Activating mutations of the TSH receptor (TSH-R) have been reported to result in toxic adenomas, multinodular goiters, sporadic neonatal hyperthyroidism, and familial autosomal dominant nonautoimmune hyperthyroidism. To date, all descriptions of such mutations, whether somatic or genomic, have been confined to the Caucasian population. We describe a Chinese family in whom a germline proline to serine substitution...
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