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Endocrine Abstracts (2016) 40 L12 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.40.L12

Hereditary Endocrine Cancer Group, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain.


The high percentage of germline mutations found in patients with pheochromocytoma (PCC) and/or paraganglioma (PGL) in recent years has made this rare disease the most heritable of all tumors. Whole-exome sequencing (WES) has played a substantial role in deciphering the genetic causes of many of these hereditary cases. Thus, MAX, FH and MDH2 have been identified as PCC/PGL susceptibility genes by sequencing the whole exome of patients selected because of the presence of a particular phenotype or distinctive molecular signature. Hereditary PCC/PGL is a good example of how WES has led to breakthroughs in understanding the genetic basis of an exceptionally rare syndrome.

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ESE Basic Endocrinology Course on Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Cancer 2016

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