A molecular view of the normal human thyroid structure and function reconstructed from its reference transcriptome map

Abstract Background The thyroid is the earliest endocrine structure to appear during human development, and thyroid hormones are necessary for proper organism development, in particular for the nervous system and heart, normal growth and skeletal maturation. To date a quantitative, validated transcr...

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Main Authors: Lorenza Vitale, Allison Piovesan, Francesca Antonaros, Pierluigi Strippoli, Maria Chiara Pelleri, Maria Caracausi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-4049-z