Screening of nineteen unrelated families with generalized resistance to thyroid hormone for known point mutations in the thyroid hormone receptor beta gene and the detection of a new mutation.

Abstract excerpt

Generalized resistance to thyroid hormone (GRTH) is a syndrome characterized by impaired tissue responsiveness to thyroid hormone. Two distinct point mutations in the hormone binding domain of the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) beta have recently been identified in two unrelated families with GRTH...

Topics

• Alleles
• Base Sequence
• Blotting, Southern
• DNA
• Humans
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Polymerase Chain Reaction
• Receptors, Thyroid Hormone
• Syndrome
• Thyroid Hormones