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4 of 6 patients with Alport syndrome from 3 different families showed prescence of antithyroid antibody (ATA), and absence of anti DNA and anti nuclear antibody. 4 healthy members of these families, 22 patients with familiar nephritis without deafness from 7 families and 10 patients with sporadic hematuria showed negative ATA. In general adult population 16 of 1000 subjects have positive titer of ATA. When often reported data are taken into account together with this survey, 14 of 19 patients with Alport syndrome have positive titer of ATA, indicating significant higher incidence of ATA in the disease.
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Fujimoto, S., Hattori, S., Namikawa, T. et al. ANTITHYROID ANTIBODY IN ALPORT SYNDROME. Pediatr Res 14, 1013 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198008000-00238
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198008000-00238