| Literature DB >> 2106478 |
C Luckenbach1, J Kömpf, H Ritter.
Abstract
An enzyme immunoassay technique combined with Western blotting is described to demonstrate thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) by isoelectric focusing in thin-layer polyacrylamide gels with 8 mol/l urea. Quantitative evaluation was by laser densitometry. No genetic charge variants of TBG were encountered in a sample of 840 unrelated individuals from southwestern Germany. There was no correlation between structural and quantitative variations in the TBG protein. Results from a family with quantitative TBG deficiency strongly support the postulated X-linked mode of inheritance. The method described can be considered as an additional diagnostic tool in thyroid evaluation.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2106478 DOI: 10.1007/bf00196237
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hum Genet ISSN: 0340-6717 Impact factor: 4.132