Clonal origin of toxic thyroid nodules with constitutively activating thyrotropin receptor mutations

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 130-134

  Krohn, Knut ^a   Führer, Dagmar ^a   Holzapfel, Hans Peter ^a   Paschke, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NODULAR GOITER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXIC GOITER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; SEQUENCE DELETION; THYROID GLAND; THYROTOXICOSIS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031738399     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.1.130     Document Type: Article

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