A new family with hyperthyroxinemia caused by transthyretin Val109 misdiagnosed as thyrotoxicosis and resistance to thyroid hormone - A clinical research center study

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3335-3340

  Refetoff, Samuel ^a   Marinov, Ventzislav S Z ^a   Tunca, Hakan ^a   Byrne, Maria M ^a   Sunthornthepvarakul, Thongkum ^a   Weiss, Roy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREALBUMIN; VALINE;

ADULT; AMYLOID NEUROPATHY; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CODON; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROXINEMIA; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; THYROTOXICOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROXINEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PREALBUMIN; THYROID HORMONE RESISTANCE SYNDROME; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE, REVERSE; VALINE;

EID: 0029795718     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.81.9.3335     Document Type: Article

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