However, the clinical significance of inferior thyroid artery peak systolic velocity (ITA-PSV) has not been shown in patients with euthyroid Hashimoto’s disease, though we previously reported that ITA-PSV reflects thyroid gland capacity to produce thyroid hormone in not only untreated Graves’ disease [11] but also euthyroid Graves’ disease [12, 13]. The gene discussed is TG; the disease is Graves disease.