Gene amplification as a common cause of inherited thyroxine-binding globulin excess: Analysis of one familial and two sporadic cases

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 613-619

  Mori, Yuichi ^a   Jing, Ping ^a   Kayama, Masato ^a   Fujieda, Kenji ^b   Hasegawa, Tomonobu ^c   Nogimori, Tsuyoshi ^d   Hirooka, Yoshifumi ^a   Mitsuma, Terunori ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Metropol Kiyose Children's H   (Japan)

^d Konanshowa Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Duplex PCR; Fluorescence in situ hybridization(FISH); Gene amplification; Inherited thyroxine binding globulin excess

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DNA; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE BINDING GLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; JAPAN; MALE; PROTEIN DEFECT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; THERMOSTABILITY; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 0032882968     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.46.613     Document Type: Article

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