[Most permanent cases (80-85%) result from alterations in the formation of the thyroid gland during embryogenesis (thyroid dysgenesis), and several were shown recently to be produced by mutations in genes responsible for the development of thyroid follicular cells (TITF1, TITF2, PAX8 and TSHR).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE