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Congenital goiter with hypothyroidism caused by a 5' splice site mutation in the thyroglobulin gene.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Jul 2001
Targovnik H M, Rivolta C M, Mendive F M, Moya C M, Vono J, Medeiros-Neto G
Abstract excerpt
In this work we have extended our initial molecular studies of a consanguineous family with two affected goitrous siblings (H.S.N. and Ac.S.N.) with defective thyroglobulin (Tg) synthesis and secretion because of a homozygotic deletion of a fragment of 138 nucleotides (nt) in the central region of the Tg mRNA, identified previously in H.S.N. In order to identify the intron/exon boundaries and to analyze the...
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