Vol 72, No 1 (2021)
Clinical vignette
Published online: 2020-12-28
Resistance to thyroid hormone caused by a mutation of the thyroid β receptor gene in a family over three generations
Abstract
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Keywords: thyroid diseasegeneticmutation
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