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Criteria for mutation analysis in MEN 1‐suspected patients: MEN 1 case‐finding
1 Jun 2000
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BACKGROUND: Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1) is an autosomal, dominantly inherited cancer syndrome, with tumours in various endocrine glands. In 1997 the responsible tumour suppressor gene was identified. MEN1 gene germ-line mutations are detected in the vast majority of MEN 1 patients, however, with regard to case-finding, unfortunately only at a very low frequency in patients with apparently sporadic...
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