Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is a rare autosomal dominant hereditary tumor syndrome. Common manifestations include more than 20 tumors of the parathyroid, pituitary and pancreatic glands and others non-endocrine tumors. The majority of patients carry a germline mutation in a tumor-suppressor gene MEN1, that encodes nuclear protein menin, ubiquitously expressed. So fare, more than 600 germline or somatic mutations have been reported over the...