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A molecular view of the normal human thyroid structure and function reconstructed from its reference transcriptome map.
BMC genomics - 18 Sept 2017
Vitale Lorenza, Piovesan Allison, Antonaros Francesca, Strippoli Pierluigi, Pelleri Maria Chiara, Caracausi Maria
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The thyroid is the earliest endocrine structure to appear during human development, and thyroid hormones are necessary for proper organism development, in particular for the nervous system and heart, normal growth and skeletal maturation. To date a quantitative, validated transcriptional atlas of the whole normal human thyroid does not exist and the availability of a detailed expression map might be...
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