Endocrine Abstracts

My group identified RET 30 years ago as the gene for Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2. My involvement was pure chance: as a medical oncologist ’borrowed’ from Urology for a day to help in the Thyroid Clinic, the first case notes I opened were of an MEN2 family. With the help of many colleagues, we established Consortia across disciplines (and countries) to assemble families for genetic linkage mapping, and in parallel helped to build the human gene map for chromos...