[Thus, the main conclusions to be drawn from this case are 1) a search for mutations in cases of congenital nonautoimmune hyperthyroidism should not remain restricted to exon 10 of the TSHR gene, because germ-line gain of function mutations of the TSH receptor can be located outside of the transmembrane core of the receptor; and 2) this case illustrates the necessity for careful functional characterization of any novel mutation before a causal relationship to hyperthyroidism can be established.]. 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