Familial gestational hyperthyroidism caused by a mutant thyrotropin receptor hypersensitive to human chorionic gonadotropin

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 25, 1998, Pages 1823-1826

  Rodien, Patrice ^a,b   Brémont, Catherine ^b   Sanson, Marie Laure Raffin ^c   Parma, Jasmine ^a   Van Sande, Jacqueline ^a   Costagliola, Sabine ^a   Luton, Jean Pierre ^b   Vassart, Gilbert ^a   Duprez, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b Hôpital Cochin ^*  (France)

^c Unité Propre de Recherche   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONE SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MISSENSE MUTATION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR GENE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0032542355     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199812173392505     Document Type: Article

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