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Spectrum of Human Foxe1/TTF2 Mutations.
Hormone research in paediatrics - 1 Jan 2010
Castanet Mireille, Polak Michel
Abstract excerpt
FOXE1 (or TTF-2) has been recognized as one of the thyroid dysgenesis (TD)-related genes based on its early expression at the thyroid bud stage and on the finding in Foxe1 knock-out mice of a sublingual or absent thyroid gland. In humans, three homozygous loss-of-function missense mutations located within the forkhead domain have been reported in 5 patients with Bamforth syndrome. This syndrome is a rare...
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