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Familial unresponsiveness to thyrotropin by autosomal recessive inheritance.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Dec 1993
Takamatsu J, Nishikawa M, Horimoto M, Ohsawa N
Abstract excerpt
Unresponsiveness to TSH has been identified and sufficiently studied in only three patients. We report siblings with this defect as the first documentation of familial occurrence. A 26-yr-old woman was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism during infancy. The thyroid was atrophic, and thyroid function tests without T4 replacement showed serum free T4 levels below 3 pmol/L, serum TSH of 125 mU/L, and serum...
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