An increased incidence of thyroid antibodies in patients with turner's syndrome and their first degree relatives

Autoimmunity

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-52

  Wilson, Rhoda ^a,b   Chu, Carol E ^a   Donaldson, Malcolm D C ^a   Thomson, John A ^a   McKillop, James H ^a   Connor, John M ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Thyroid disease; Turner's syndrome

Indexed keywords

THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KARYOTYPE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TURNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0030434868     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08916939608994725     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Fialkow, P. J., Hect, F., Uchida, I. A., Motulsky, A. G. Increased frequency of thyroid antibodies in mothers of patients with Down's Syndrome. Lancet 1965; 2: 868-870.
2. Williams, E. D., Engle, E., Forbes, A. P. Thyroiditis and gonadal dysgenesis. New England Journal Medicine 1964; 270: 804-810.
3. Doniach, D., Roitt, J. M., Polan, P. E. Thyroid antibodies and sex chromosome abnormalities. Proceedings Royal Society Medicine 1968; 61: 278-280.
4. Vallotta, M. B., Forbes, A. P. Autoimmunity in gonadal dysgenesis and Klinefelter's syndrome. Lancet 1967; 1: 648-651.
5. Sparks, R. S., Motulsky, G. The Turner syndrome with isochrome X and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Annals internal Medicine 1967; 67: 132-144.
6. Flemming, S., Cowell, G., Bailey, J., Burrow, G. N. Hashimoto's disease in Turner's syndrome. Clinical and Investigative Medicine 1988; 11: 243-246.
7. Schatz, D. A., Maclaren, N. K., Lippe, B. M. Autoimmunity in Turner's Syndrome. Ed by R. G. Rosenfield, M. M. Grumbach In: Turner Syndrome. Marcall Dekker New York 1990; 205-220.
8. Gluch, M., Attanasio, A., Speer, U., Butenandt, O., Tietze, H. U., Scherbaum Prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies to endocrine organs in girls with Ullrich-Turner Syndrome aged 5-14 years. Horm Res 1992; 38: 114-119.
9. German, E. L., Plotnick, L. P. Age related antithyroid antibodies and thyroid autoimmunity in Turner's Syndrome. Acta Paediatrica Scandinavia 1986; 75: 750-755.
10. De Kerdanet, M., Lucas, J., Lemee, F., Lecornu, M. Turners' syndrome with X-isochromosome and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Clinical Endocrinology 1994; 41: 673-676.
11. Zinman, B., Kabiawau, S. I., Moross, T., Bulpmanis, A., Markovic, V., Gardner, H. A. Endocrine cytogenetic and psychometric features of patients with X isochromosome 46, Xi (Xq) Turner's syndrome - preliminary study in 9 patients. Clinical Investigative Medicine 1984; 7: 135-141.