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Mass screening for complete deficiency of thyroxine-binding globulin in adult Japanese by comprehensive health examination.
Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Apr 1996
Noguchi T, Miki T, Takamatsu J, Nakajima T, Kumahara Y
Abstract excerpt
The incidence of complete thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) deficiency (TBG-CD) was determined for a Japanese population from a comprehensive health examination, in which a T3 resin uptake test of the upper 5% (78 subjects from among 1,589 men) was the screening line for TBG-CD. Further analysis of the known mutation in TBG-CD gene of the Japanese population (reported as TBG-CDJ with codon 352 deletion) was...
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