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An endoplasmic reticulum storage disease causing congenital goiter with hypothyroidism.
The Journal of cell biology - 1 May 1996
Kim P S, Kwon O Y, Arvan P
Abstract excerpt
In humans, deficient thyroglobulin (Tg, the thyroid prohormone) is an important cause of congenital hypothyroid goiter; further, homozygous mice expressing two cog/cog alleles (linked to the Tg locus) exhibit the same phenotype. Tg mutations might affect multiple different steps in thyroid hormone synthesis; however, the microscopic and biochemical phenotype tends to involve enlargement of the thyroid ER and...
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