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SUBMITTER: Grunert SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3350182 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grünert Sarah Catharina SC Schmidts Miriam M Pohlenz Joachim J Kopp Matthias Volkmar MV Uhl Markus M Schwab Karl Otfried KO
Case reports in pediatrics 20111221
Congenital central hypothyroidism (CCH) is a rare condition occurring in 1 : 20000 to 1 : 50000 newborns. As TSH plasma levels are low, CCH is usually not detected by TSH-based neonatal screening for hypothyroidism, and, as a result, diagnosis is often delayed putting affected children at risk for developmental delay and growth failure. We report on a girl with isolated central hypothyroidism due to a homozygous one-base pair deletion (T313del) in exon 3 of the TSHβ subunit gene. The molecular g ...[more]