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Congenital hypothyroidism with goiter in Tenterfield terriers.
Journal of veterinary internal medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Dodgson S E, Day R, Fyfe J C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: A cluster of cases of congenital hypothyroidism with goiter (CHG) in Tenterfield Terriers was identified and hypothesized to be dyshormonogenesis of genetic etiology with autosomal recessive inheritance. OBJECTIVES: To describe the phenotype, thyroid histopathology, biochemistry, mode of inheritance, and causal mutation of CHG in Tenterfield Terriers. ANIMALS: Thyroid tissue from 1 CHG-affected...
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