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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
Familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia (FDH) is the most common cause of inherited euthyroid hyperthyroxinemia in Caucasians. To our knowledge, no such documentation on Asians exists. Six of 8 members of a 3-generation Japanese family were found by us to carry the FDH phenotype. Serum total T4 levels ranged from 1763.2-2741.3 nmol/L (normal range, 65.6-164.7), serum total T3 levels ranged from 2.73-5.62 nmol/L (normal range, 1.47-2.95), and rT3 levels ranged from 1.08-2.52 nmol/L (normal range, 0.22-0.60). In the proband, the majority of [125I]T4 in serum T4-binding proteins was distributed in albumin fractions, and the isolated albumin had an increased affinity for T4. A guanine to cytosine transition in the second nucleotide of codon 218, resulting in replacement of normal arginine with proline, was detected in 1 of 2 alleles in all 5 subjects of the family with FDH. In all FDH-affected Caucasian subjects from 10 unrelated families with a moderate increase in serum T4, the guanine to adenine transition was demonstrated at the same position of the albumin gene as noted in our patients, but histidine, the replacement amino acid, differed from proline noted in our FDH Japanese subjects. It would thus appear that FDH has ethnic variations.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0021-972X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3246-50
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Asian Continental Ancestry Group, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Codon, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Female, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Genome, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Hyperthyroxinemia, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Japan, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Phenotype, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Serum Albumin, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Thyroid Function Tests, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Thyroid Gland, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Thyroid Hormones, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Thyroxine, pubmed-meshheading:9329347-Triiodothyronine
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
A novel missense mutation in codon 218 of the albumin gene in a distinct phenotype of familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia in a Japanese kindred.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine II, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports