autoimmune thyroid disease (autoimmune thyroiditis)

Introduction

Includes:

• Hashimoto's thyroiditis
• Grave's disease

Genetics

• type 3 susceptibility associated with polmorphisms in thyroglobulin

Laboratory

• LMOD1 is autoantigen
• see ARUP consult

More general terms

• autoimmune disease
• thyroid disease

More specific terms

• Graves disease (Basedow's disease, exothalmic goiter)
• Hashimoto's thyroiditis; chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis; struma lymphomatosa; lymphadenoid goiter; primary myxedema

Patient information

autoimmune thyroid disease patient information

Database

• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/608173
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/608174
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/608175
• OMIM: https://mirror.omim.org/entry/608176