Article
Rapid detection of a point mutation in thyroid-stimulating hormone beta-subunit gene causing congenital isolated thyroid-stimulating hormone deficiency.
Jinrui idengaku zasshi. The Japanese journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 1991
Mori R, Sawai T, Kinoshita E, Baba T, Matsumoto T, Yoshimoto M, Tsuji Y, Satake Y, Sawada K
Abstract excerpt
Previous study showed that congenital isolated TSH deficiency in Japan is resulted exclusively from a G-A transition at nucleotide 145 in exon 2 of the TSH beta-subunit gene. All reported cases were from the inbred in Shikoku Island. We describe here a 10-year-old boy with hereditary TSH deficiency in the same area. The patient was born with a weight of 3,225 g to non-consanguineous parents. Evaluation at age 2...
Topics
- Child
- Congenital Hypothyroidism
- Genes
- Humans
- Hypothyroidism
- Male
- Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Thyrotropin
