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Increased Prevalence of TG and TPO Mutations in Sudanese Children With Congenital Hypothyroidism.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 May 2020
Bruellman Ryan J, Watanabe Yui, Ebrhim Reham S, Creech Matthew K, Abdullah Mohamed A, Dumitrescu Alexandra M, Refetoff Samuel, Weiss Roy E
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CONTEXT: Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is due to dyshormonogenesis in 10% to 15% of subjects worldwide but accounts for 60% of CH cases in the Sudan. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the molecular basis of CH in Sudanese families. DESIGN: Clinical phenotype reporting and serum thyroid hormone measurements. Deoxyribonucelic acid extraction for whole-exome sequencing and Sanger sequencing. SETTING: University research...
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