Table 4.

Thyroid specific gene expression mRNA levels determined by real-time PCR in FNs and NNs of the two patients

	Patient #1			Patient #2
	FN	NN	Normal thyroid	FN	NN	Normal thyroid
TSHr	1.25 ± 0.15	2.25 ± 0.21	2.66 ± 0.30	0.54 ± 0.06	1.31 ± 0.11	0.84 ± 0.07
TPO	12.2 ± 1.32	8.32 ± 0.71	1.03 ± 0.99	3.15 ± 0.35	1.68 ± 0.19	0.98 ± 0.09
Tg	1.65 ± 0.17	2.21 ± 0.22	1.44 ± 0.18	0.84 ± 0.07	0.72 ± 0.07	0.62 ± 0.05
NIS	3.75 ± 0.38	0.67 ± 0.07	0.50 ± 0.05	2.94 ± 0.31	0.16 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.02

Results are expressed as pg RNA of the target gene/pg RNA of the housekeeping gene