[Anonymous October 20, 1998 at 2:24 am Post count: 93172]

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I was just wondering, (I do that sometimes;)if anyone has volunteered for any type of thyroid research and what their experience was with it. I had blood drawn to test for a certain thyroid antibody for the eyes but I came back negative and could not go on the thyroid team.

Any stories, good, bad or indifferent I am sure we all would like to hear..

Thanks!
Dee

[Anonymous October 20, 1998 at 8:40 am Post count: 93172]

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Hi all,

Yes My self and my family have taken part in a DNA research project with
Mt Siani Hospital in NYC. They were looking for people with Graves disease
(with eye involvement)and a history of Graves in the family. They took my
blood, my Mom’s (Graves with eye involvement), my son’s (no Graves), and my
cousin (Graves with eye involvement).

They are looking for the Gene that causes Graves and are trying to find if
the genes of people with Graves eye disease are different from those with
out eye involvement.

I handed out a paper at the National Graves Disease convention in Louisville
this year and had a number of people take part in the research. We offered
to put them on our NGDF web site but they declined since they said they had
enough donors for the time being. They may put out a call for more latter.

Will keep you informed as I hear more.

Jake
On-Line Facilitator

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