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Severe Resistance to Thyroid Hormone Beta in a Patient with Athyreosis.
Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association - 1 Mar 2022
Salas-Lucia Federico, França Monica M, Amrhein James A, Weir J Elizabeth, Dumitrescu Alexandra M, Refetoff Samuel
Abstract excerpt
We report a patient with congenital hypothyroidism due to athyreosis complicated by a heterozygous thyroid hormone receptor beta (THRβ) gene mutation (R320L), resulting in a severe resistance to thyroid hormone beta phenotype. The proband inherited the mutant allele from his father, presenting a very mild phenotype. While the precise reason for this discrepancy remains unknown, we postulate the possibility of de...
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