The pituitary-thyroid axis set point in women is uninfluenced by X chromosome inactivation pattern? A twin study

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 666-670

  Brix, Thomas H ^a   Hansen, Pia S ^a,b   Kyvik, Kirsten O ^b   Hegedüs, Laszlo ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BODY MASS; CAG REPEAT; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; THYROID DISEASE; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TWINS; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; ZYGOSITY;

ADULT; AUTOANTIBODIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY GLAND; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 78449287715     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2010.03848.x     Document Type: Article

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