With regard to the most frequent autoimmune endocrine disease, all major thyroid‐specific autoantigens, such as thyroperoxydase, thyroglobulin, and thyrotropin receptor (TSHR), are also transcribed in human TECs in normal conditions.79, 80, 81 It was further shown that homozygotes for an SNP allele predisposing to Graves’ disease have significantly lower intrathymic TSHR transcripts than carriers of the protective allele.82 The gene discussed is TSHR; the disease is Graves disease.