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The role of pendrin in iodide regulation.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Jan 2001
Fugazzola L, Cerutti N, Mannavola D, Vannucchi G, Beck-Peccoz P
Abstract excerpt
Recent advances in human genetics have catalyzed the attention on Pendred's syndrome and its disease-gene, PDS. Studies on the expression of the PDS gene and on the function of its encoded protein, which has been named pendrin, are currently in progress. Consistent with the Pendred's syndrome phenotype, which is characterized by thyroid dysfunction associated to deafness, PDS expression has been demonstrated in...
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