[The sodium-iodide-symporter (NIS) plays a key role in iodination, the first step in the biosynthesis of the thyroid hormones, and is thought to be critically involved in several thyroid disorders associated with altered iodine up-take.]. 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