The High Prevalence of Thyroid Goiter Between Arab Minorities in Israel – a Possible Hereditary Connection

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<h4>Background: </h4> Thyroid goiter is endemic in certain world areas, especially with low Iodine supply. Genetic predisposition with the combination of various environmental factors have been suggested as risk factors for thyroid goiter. The exact mechanism causing thyroid goiter is still not clear. Israel has a small geographic area with a diverse non mixed ethnic minorities. All populations share similar envir...

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• Arabs
• Congenital Hypothyroidism
• Consanguinity
• Genetic Testing
• Iodide Peroxidase
• Islam
• Israel
• Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length

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Literature Corpus work

8c7fbf10-1dc4-5d4f-84db-f7f81be73dfa

DOI

10.20944/preprints202505.2085.v1