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Genetics of congenital hypothyroidism.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 May 2005
Park S M, Chatterjee V K K
Abstract excerpt
Congenital hypothyroidism is the most common neonatal metabolic disorder and results in severe neurodevelopmental impairment and infertility if untreated. Congenital hypothyroidism is usually sporadic but up to 2% of thyroid dysgenesis is familial, and congenital hypothyroidism caused by organification defects is often recessively inherited. The candidate genes associated with this genetically heterogeneous...
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