Genetics of normal and abnormal thyroid development in humans

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 133-150

  Szinnai, Gabor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

congenital hypothyroidism; endoderm; epigenetics; Mendelian inheritance; neonatal screening; thyroid development; thyroid dysgenesis; thyroxine

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; COUNSELING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIATION; ENDODERM; EPIGENETICS; FAMILY; FOXE1 GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; NKX2 1 GENE; NKX2 5 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PAX8 GENE; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; THYROID DYSGENESIS; THYROID GLAND;

CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; ENDODERM; EPIGENETICS; MENDELIAN INHERITANCE; NEONATAL SCREENING; THYROID DEVELOPMENT; THYROID DYSGENESIS; THYROXINE;

ANIMALS; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEONATAL SCREENING; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID DYSGENESIS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 84896073133     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2013.08.005     Document Type: Review

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