Familial non-autoimmune hyperthyroidism in family members across four generations due to a novel disease-causing variant in the thyrotropin receptor gene
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23. März 2021
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Online veröffentlicht: 23. März 2021
Seitenbereich: 87 - 92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjmg-2020-0022
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Figure 1
![A family pedigree with clinical manifestations and observed TSHR gene disease-causing variant. The initially tested index patients are indicated by arrows. Variant in heterozygous state is marked as p.[Met453Val];[=], normal state is marked as p.[=];[=].](https://sciendo-parsed.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/6471089d2b88470fbea14554/j_bjmg-2020-0022_fig_001.jpg?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA6AP2G7AKOUXAVR44%2F20250908%2Feu-central-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20250908T173221Z&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=8c88a85e0ddded927b7e10fe984939f591b631e91af2779d47a8fdc29bc1a48e&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&x-amz-checksum-mode=ENABLED&x-id=GetObject)
Figure 2

Summary of the clinical characteristics of the family members with hyperthyroidism_ Additionally, all patients were tall and slim, they had long, thin fingers, aquiline nose, staring eyes and no exophthalmos_
Patient | Born | Died | Age at Onset | Antibodies (IU/mL) | Treatment | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hyp | CVC | AntiTG | AntiTPO | Antithyroid Drugs | Thyroidectomy | 131-Iodine | |||
I-1 | 1896 | 1963 | NK | NK | NK | NK | NK | ||
II-1 | 1923 | 2008 | 42 | 60 | 55 | 37 | 3 years | [+] | |
II-4 | 1930 | 2004 | 45 | 46 | 48 | 54 | 9 years | [+] | |
II-5 | 1932 | 1998 | 51 | 50 | negative | negative | 7 years | [+] | |
II-9 | 1940 | 1991 | 40 | 40 | NK | NK | 2 years | [+] | |
III-2 | 1952 | 40 | – | negative | negative | 6 years | [+] | ||
III-5 | 1954 | 2007 | 24 | 26 | negative | negative | 3 years | [+] | |
III-6 | 1958 | 23 | – | negative | negative | 4 years | [+] | [+] | |
III-9 | 1973 | 17 | – | negative | negative | 1 year | [+] | ||
IV-2 | 1984 | 10 | – | 80 | >1000 | 14 years | |||
IV-3 | 1988 | 6 | – | negative | negative | 14 years | [+] |