Aggregation of thyroid autoantibodies in first-degree relatives of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease is mainly due to genes: A twin study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 329-334

  Brix, Thomas Heiberg ^a   Hansen, Pia Skov ^a,b   Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm ^b   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SIBLING; THYROID DISEASE; TWINS;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; DISEASES IN TWINS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID HORMONES; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 1542359462     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.01983.x     Document Type: Article

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