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Genetic defects, thyroid growth and malfunctions of the TSHR in pediatric patients.
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) - 1 Jun 2010
Biebermann Heike, Winkler Franziska, Kleinau Gunnar
Abstract excerpt
Naturally occurring activating and inactivating mutations of the thyrotropin receptor (TSHR) were found as a molecular cause of diseases in patients suffering from non-autoimmune hyperthyroidism and syndromes of thyrotropin resistance, respectively. These mutations are mostly functionally characterized in vitro and therefore, they represent an excellent tool to study structure-function relationships of this...
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