Abstract
We investigated the genetic cause of thyroid dyshormonogenesis in a girl with congenital hypothyroidism. Genetic analysis showed that she was homozygous for a hitherto not described mutation (c.1432_1433delGT, p.V478KfsX11) in the solute carrier family 26 member 7 (SLC26A7) gene. SLC26A7 is proposed to be an anion transporter in the thyroid gland. The mutation leads to a frameshift and a premature stop codon. The predicted protein is truncated and very likely to be nonfunctional if it was expressed at all. In addition, in silico studies predict the mutation to be pathogenic.
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