Premature birth and low birth weight associated with nonautoimmune hyperthyroidism due to an activating thyrotropin receptor gene mutation

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 711-718

  Vaidya, Bijay ^a,c   Campbell, Viv ^b   Tripp, John H ^b   Spyer, Gill ^a   Hattersley, Andrew T ^a   Ellard, Sian ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; CARBIMAZOLE; PREDNISOLONE; PROPRANOLOL; SERINE; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUTHYROIDISM; FAMILY; FATHER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONAUTOIMMUNE HYPERTHYROIDISM; PARENT; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR GENE;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN;

EID: 2942724248     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02040.x     Document Type: Article

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