Are responses to a 1 month self-report on adherence to antiretroviral therapy consistent with electronic data and virological treatment outcome?
The MASRI provides a means of measuring patient adherence that is valid when compared with objective measures.
It is likely that this mutation causes FMTC, as no other mutation was found in the RET gene, the mutation co-segregates with FMTC, and family members without the mutation are clinically unaffected. As the same point mutation was previously found in a large Brazilian family, it may be present in other populations as well. Therefore, exon 8 of RET should be screened in FMTC families with no identified common RET mutations.