All patients received 3.7- to 5.5-GBq radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation, post-therapy whole-body scans (TxWBSs), and diagnostic WBS (DxWBSs) during follow-up.
The WBS gene has been assigned to the locus 11p15 and there appear to be several different genetic mechanisms involving this locus which all give rise to WBS.