Article
Generalized thyroid hormone resistance: identification of an arginine to cystine mutation in codon 315 of the c-erb A beta thyroid hormone receptor.
Journal of endocrinological investigation - 1 Sept 1992
Burman K D, Djuh Y Y, Nicholson D, Rhooms P, Wartofsky L, Fein H G, Usala S J, Hao E H, Bradley W E, Berard J
Abstract excerpt
The present report studies a large kindred (WR) with generalized thyroid hormone resistance that has varying degrees of neuropsychological dysfunction, hyperactivity, poor attention span, decreased IQ and/or abnormalities in spatial perception. In this kindred, there has been found tight linkage...
Topics
- Arginine
- Base Sequence
- Codon
- Cystine
- DNA
- Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific
- Drug Resistance
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
