Cited by 50Thyroid Disorders and TreatmentsGrowth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth FactorsConnective tissue disorders research

Thyroid Hormone Receptor α Mutation Causes a Severe and Thyroxine-Resistant Skeletal Dysplasia in Female Mice

Open access
Bassett, J. H. Duncan, Boyde, Alan, Zikmund, Tomas, Evans, Holly, Croucher, Peter I., Zhu, Xuguang, Park, Jeong Won, Cheng, Sheue-yann +1 more·2014·Endocrinology

Abstract

A new genetic disorder has been identified that results from mutation of THRA, encoding thyroid hormone receptor α1 (TRα1). Affected children have a high serum T3:T4 ratio and variable degrees of intellectual deficit and constipation but exhibit a consistently severe skeletal dysplasia. In an attempt to improve developmental delay and alleviate symptoms of hypothyroidism, patients are receiving varying doses and durations of T4 treatment, but responses have been inconsistent so far. Thra1PV/+ mice express a similar potent dominant-negative mutant TRα1 to affected individuals, and thus represent an excellent disease model. We hypothesized that Thra1PV/+ mice could be used to predict the skeletal outcome of human THRA mutations and determine whether prolonged treatment with a supraphysiological dose of T4 ameliorates the skeletal abnormalities. Adult female Thra1PV/+ mice had short stature, grossly abnormal bone morphology but normal bone strength despite high bone mass. Although T4 treatment suppressed TSH secretion, it had no effect on skeletal maturation, linear growth, or bone mineralization, thus demonstrating profound tissue resistance to thyroid hormone. Despite this, prolonged T4 treatment abnormally increased bone stiffness and strength, suggesting the potential for detrimental consequences in the long term. Our studies establish that TRα1 has an essential role in the developing and adult skeleton and predict that patients with different THRA mutations will display variable responses to T4 treatment, which depend on the severity of the causative mutation.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1210/en.2013-2156

Cites

60 of 60 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Together, the reports define a new genetic disorder, RTHα, characterized by profound and consistent developmental abnormalities of the skeleton that recapitulate findings in mice with dominant-negative Thra mutations.

    “Together, these reports define a new genetic disorder, RTHα, characterized by profound and consistent developmental abnormalities of the skeleton that recapitulate findings in mice with dominant-negative Thra mutations [80–85].”

    From Thyroid diseases and bone health (2018) · cites this paper as [80]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [32]Bianco AC Anderson G Forrest D American thyroid association guide to investigating thyroid hormone economy and action in rodent and cell models. Thyroid. 2014; 24(1): 88– 168. 24001133 PMC3887458

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Bassett, J. H. D., Boyde, A., Zikmund, T., Evans, H., Croucher, P. I., Zhu, X., Park, J. W., Cheng, S.-Y., & Williams, G. R.
Affiliations
  • Imperial College London (GB)
  • Queen Mary University of London (GB)
  • Laboratory of X-Ray Micro-Computed Tomography and Nano-Computed Tomography (T.Z.), Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology CZ-61600 Brno, Czech Republic
  • University of Sheffield (GB)
  • Garvan Institute of Medical Research (AU)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
  • Cheng, Sheue-yann
  • Williams, Graham R.
Venue
Endocrinology
Published
2014-09-01
Volume
155
Issue
9
Pages
3699-3712
ISSN
  • 0013-7227 (ISSN-L)
  • 1945-7170
OpenAlex
W2003839113
Cited by
50
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1
FWCI
6.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Endocrinology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Australian National University
  • National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Thyroid Disorders and Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Connective tissue disorders research
Keywords
thyroid hormone receptor alpha, skeletal dysplasia, dominant-negative mutant, bone stiffness, bone strength, bone mineralization, short stature, TSH secretion, intellectual deficit, hypothyroidism, disease models
MeSH terms
Animals, Bone Diseases, Developmental, Calcification, Physiologic, Female, Humans, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Mutation, Thyroxine, Bone Density, Thyroid Hormone Receptors alpha, Body Size, Mice

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review