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Figure14- 23: TSH receptor mutation, with a Lysine to Arginine mutation in position 183 of the ecto-domain. The graph on the left shows that the mutation confers high sensitivity to hCG (red curve), compared with wild type TSH receptor (blue curve). The family tree (upper right) shows the pedigree of the patient. (from 249).