APPARITION SIMULTANEE D'UNE INSUFFISANCE THYROIDIENNE PRIMITIVE CHEZ DES JUMELLES MONOZYGOTES
- 1 July 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Acta Endocrinologica
- Vol. 49 (3) , 487-496
- https://doi.org/10.1530/acta.0.0490487
Abstract
Female uniovular twins have developed simultaneously a symptomatology of primary hypothyroidism. This observation suggests the incidence of genetic factors in the aetiology of the disease. Comparison with adrenocortical atrophy could mean that life duration of endocrine glands might be genetically determined.Keywords
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