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SUBMITTER: Bruellman R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232585 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]