The impact of a TSH receptor gene polymorphism on thyroid-related phenotypes in a healthy Danish twin population

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 827-832

  Hansen, Pia Skov ^a,b   Van Der Deure, Wendy M ^c   Peeters, Robin P ^c   Iachine, Ivan ^b   Fenger, Mogens ^d   Sørensen, Thorkild I A ^e   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^b   Visser, Theo J ^c   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID GLAND; THYROID WEIGHT; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TWINS;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34347386269     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2007.02820.x     Document Type: Article

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