Thyroid diseases articles within Nature Communications

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  11 May 2024 | Open Access

  A fully autonomous robotic ultrasound system for thyroid scanning

  Current thyroid ultrasounds rely heavily on the experience and skills of the sonographer and of the radiologist, and the process is physically and cognitively exhausting. Here, the authors show a fully autonomous robotic ultrasound system, which is able to scan thyroid regions without human assistance and identify malignant nodules.

  • Kang Su
  • , Jingwei Liu
  •  & Peter Xiaoping Liu

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  11 April 2024 | Open Access

  Deficiency of the HGF/Met pathway leads to thyroid dysgenesis by impeding late thyroid expansion

  The mechanisms of bifurgation, a key step in thyroid development, are largely unknown. Here, Fang et al. find that HGF/Met is indispensable for the bifurgation of the thyroid primordium during zebrafish thyroid development.

  • Ya Fang
  • , Jia-Ping Wan
  •  & Huai-Dong Song

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  08 February 2024 | Open Access

  Unraveling the role of the mitochondrial one-carbon pathway in undifferentiated thyroid cancer by multi-omics analyses

  Different types of metabolic rewiring are reported to drive cancer development and as a potential therapeutic target. Here, the authors perform multi-omics analyses in a cohort of human normal and malignant thyroid samples and show association of mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism with undifferentiated thyroid cancer.

  • Seong Eun Lee
  • , Seongyeol Park
  •  & Yea Eun Kang

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  30 January 2024 | Open Access

  Multi-trait analysis characterizes the genetics of thyroid function and identifies causal associations with clinical implications

  Thyroid dysfunction is involved in many diseases. Here, the authors provide insights into the genetics and biological pathways influencing important thyroid function parameters, showing potential causal effects on many clinical outcomes.

  • Rosalie B. T. M. Sterenborg
  • , Inga Steinbrenner
  •  & Marco Medici

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  06 December 2023 | Open Access

  Myeloid cells interact with a subset of thyrocytes to promote their migration and follicle formation through NF-κB

  The mechanism underlying thyroid follicle formation is not well understood. Here, the authors show that a subgroup of NF-κB-activated thyrocytes, through interactions with myeloid cells, exhibit increased migration capacity to generate new follicles.

  • Yang Rui-Meng
  • , Song Shi-Yang
  •  & Song Huai-Dong

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  23 October 2023 | Open Access

  Genome-wide association study of thyroid-stimulating hormone highlights new genes, pathways and associations with thyroid disease

  Thyroid hormones play a critical role in regulation of multiple physiological functions. Here the authors via meta-analyses and detailed variant-to-gene mapping strategies implicate novel genes, pathways and associations for thyroid function and disease.

  • Alexander T. Williams
  • , Jing Chen
  •  & Catherine John

• Article
  29 June 2022 | Open Access

  Deep learning to diagnose Hashimoto’s thyroiditis from sonographic images

  Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the main cause of hypothyroidism. Here the authors develop a deep learning model for diagnosis of HT on a large multi-site dataset including image and video data.

  • Qiang Zhang
  • , Sheng Zhang
  •  & Xiangchun Li

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  24 March 2022 | Open Access

  Targeting myeloid derived suppressor cells reverts immune suppression and sensitizes BRAF-mutant papillary thyroid cancer to MAPK inhibitors

  BRAF-V600E mutation is common in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and has been associated with an aggressive phenotype. Here the authors show that the mutation supports cancer progression by reactivating the developmental factor TBX3 and promoting the recruitment of myeloid derived suppressive cells.

  • Peitao Zhang
  • , Haixia Guan
  •  & Li Zhao

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  09 February 2022 | Open Access

  Lymphocyte infiltration and thyrocyte destruction are driven by stromal and immune cell components in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

  Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease with a complex pathomechanism. Authors here show by single cell RNA sequencing that the thyroidal microenvironment in the disease is characterised by three stromal cell subtypes that are potentially responsible for the recruitment of infiltrating inflammatory immune cells, such as macrophages and dendritic cells.

  • Qian-Yue Zhang
  • , Xiao-Ping Ye
  •  & Huai-Dong Song

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  21 May 2020 | Open Access

  FoxO1–Dio2 signaling axis governs cardiomyocyte thyroid hormone metabolism and hypertrophic growth

  Disease stress-induced cardiac hypertrophy is a major mechanism of pathological cardiac remodeling. Here, the authors unveil a previously unrecognized role of a FoxO1–Dio2 signaling axis in maladaptive, afterload-induced cardiac hypertrophy and intracellular thyroid hormone homeostasis.

  • Anwarul Ferdous
  • , Zhao V. Wang
  •  & Joseph A. Hill

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  26 October 2018 | Open Access

  Genome-wide analyses identify a role for SLC17A4 and AADAT in thyroid hormone regulation

  Thyroid dysfunction is a common public health problem and associated with cardiovascular co-morbidities. Here, the authors carry out genome-wide meta-analysis for thyroid hormone (TH) levels, hyper- and hypothyroidism and identify SLC17A4 as a TH transporter and AADAT as a TH metabolizing enzyme.

  • Alexander Teumer
  • , Layal Chaker
  •  & Marco Medici

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  05 June 2017 | Open Access

  The genetic landscape of benign thyroid nodules revealed by whole exome and transcriptome sequencing

  Papillary thyroid carcinomas are often found with coincidental benign thyroid nodules. Here, the authors provide genomic evidence that papillary thyroid carcinomas and coincidental benign thyroid nodules originate and evolve independently.

  • Lei Ye
  • , Xiaoyi Zhou
  •  & Weiqing Wang