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Resistance to thyroid hormone in a patient without thyroid hormone receptor mutations.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Jan 2002
Parikh S, Ando S, Schneider A, Skarulis M C, Sarlis N J, Yen P M
Abstract excerpt
Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is a clinical syndrome characterized by elevated serum thyroid hormone (TH) levels, unsuppressed thyrotropin (TSH) levels, and tissue hyposensitivity to TH. In almost all cases, the genetic basis of RTH lies in mutation of one of the two TH receptor beta (TRbeta) alleles. Recently, patients from several families with phenotypic manifestations of RTH in the absence of TR...
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