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Insertion of an Alu Element in Thyroglobulin Gene as a Novel Cause of Congenital Hypothyroidism.


ABSTRACT: The thyroglobulin (TG) gene encodes a protein required for thyroid hormone synthesis and iodine storage. Deleterious TG mutations produce congenital hypothyroidism (CH) often presenting with undetectable serum TG. Alu elements, common throughout the human genome, have a poly(dA) region in the 3' end of the strand. Herein two of four siblings of a consanguineous Sudanese family with CH, goiter, high initial serum thyrotropin, and undetectable TG were found to have a novel frameshift insertion of an Alu element within an exon of the TG gene: c.7909ins p.Y3637Ffs. This report demonstrates a novel Alu element insertion within TG causing CH.

SUBMITTER: Bruellman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232585 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Insertion of an Alu Element in Thyroglobulin Gene as a Novel Cause of Congenital Hypothyroidism.

Bruellman Ryan R   Watanabe Yui Y   Shareef Reham R   Abdullah Mohamed A MA   Dumitrescu Alexandra A   Strauss Bernard S BS   Refetoff Samuel S   Weiss Roy E RE  

Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association 20200203 5


The <i>thyroglobulin</i> (<i>TG</i>) gene encodes a protein required for thyroid hormone synthesis and iodine storage. Deleterious <i>TG</i> mutations produce congenital hypothyroidism (CH) often presenting with undetectable serum TG. Alu elements, common throughout the human genome, have a poly(dA) region in the 3' end of the strand. Herein two of four siblings of a consanguineous Sudanese family with CH, goiter, high initial serum thyrotropin, and undetectable TG were found to have a novel fra  ...[more]

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