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Familial Isolated Hyperparathyroidism as a Variant of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 in a Large Danish Pedigree<sup>1</sup>
1 Jan 2000
Abstract excerpt
We report here our genetic findings of a family in which 14 members were affected with isolated primary hyperparathyroidism. Hyperparathyroidism is the main feature of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1), making the recently cloned MEN1 gene a prime candidate gene in this family. Significantly positive lod scores were achieved with D11S4946 (3.36) and D11S4940 (3.53), and by combining the results from...
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