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Screening for mutations of the human thyroid peroxidase gene in patients with congenital hypothyroidism.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Jan 1996
Grüters A, Köhler B, Wolf A, Söling A, de Vijlder L, Krude H, Biebermann H
Abstract excerpt
While congenital hypothyroidism in 80-90% of the affected individuals is caused by thyroid dysgenesis (athyrosis, ectopy or hypoplasia), hypothyroidism in patients with a thyroid gland of normal position and size can be due to regulatory or enzymatic defects of thyroid hormone biosynthesis. Besid...
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