New therapies for patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1.

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In 1953, for the first time, Paul Wermer described a family presenting endocrine gland neoplasms over several generations. The transmission was autosomal dominant and the penetrance was high. Forty years later in 1997, the multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) gene was sequenced, thus enabling diagnosis and early optimal treatment. Patients carrying the MEN1 gene present endocrine but also non-endocrine...

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