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Genetic and environmental influences on thyroid hormone variation in Mexican Americans.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Jul 2004
Samollow Paul B, Perez Graciela, Kammerer Candace M, Finegold David, Zwartjes Patrick W, Havill Lorena M, Comuzzie Anthony G, Mahaney Michael C, Göring Harald H, Blangero John, Foley Thomas P, Barmada M Michael
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid hormones play major roles in the regulation of a wide range of metabolic and physiologic processes, but the genes and environmental factors that affect normal, quantitative variation in thyroid hormone concentrations are largely unknown. Using quantitative genetic methods, we evaluated the effects of genes and environmental factors on thyroid hormone variation in 586 women and 425 men from 27 randomly...
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