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SUBMITTER: Yamamoto S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3809735 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamamoto Sayaka S Okuhara Koji K Tonoki Hidefumi H Iizuka Susumu S Nihei Noriko N Tajima Toshihiro T
Clinical pediatric endocrinology : case reports and clinical investigations : official journal of the Japanese Society for Pediatric Endocrinology 20131026 4
Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome (AHDS), an X linked condition, is characterized by congenital hypotonia that progresses to spasticity with severe psychomotor delays, in combination with altered thyroid hormone levels, in particular, high serum T3 levels. Recently, this disease was proved to be caused by mutations in SLC16A2 coding for the monocarboxylate thyroid hormone transporter 8 (MCT8). Here we describe a 26-year -old Japanese patient with AHDS who had deletion of exon 3 of SLC16A2. ...[more]