Constitutively activating TSH-receptor mutations as a molecular cause of non-autoimmune hyperthyroidism in childhood

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 385, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 390-392

  Biebermann, Heike ^a   Schöneberg, Torsten ^a   Krude, Heiko ^a   Gudermann, Thomas ^a   Grüters, Annette ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constitutive activity; Mutation; Non autoimmune hyperthyroidism; TSHR

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INHERITANCE; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; ORGAN GROWTH; PATHOGENESIS; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0033747056     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004230000145     Document Type: Article

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