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Resistance to Thyroid Hormone due to Heterozygous Mutations in Thyroid Hormone Receptor Alpha.
Current topics in developmental biology - 1 Jan 2017
van Gucht Anja L M, Moran Carla, Meima Marcel E, Visser W Edward, Chatterjee Krishna, Visser Theo J, Peeters Robin P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Thyroid hormone (TH) acts via nuclear thyroid hormone receptors (TRs). TR isoforms (TRα1, TRα2, TRβ1, TRβ2) are encoded by distinct genes (THRA and THRB) and show differing tissue distributions. Patients with mutations in THRB, exhibiting resistance within the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis with elevated TH and nonsuppressed thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) levels, were first described decades...
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