Thyroid dysgenesis: Multigenic or epigenetic . . . or both?

Endocrinology

Volumn 146, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 5035-5037

  Vassart, Gilbert ^a   Dumont, Jacques E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; THYROTROPIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8;

AUTOSOME MOSAICISM; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; EPIGENETICS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NULL ALLELE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THYROID DISEASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 27844552888     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2005-1238     Document Type: Short Survey

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