Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia—Syndromes of the Twentieth Century

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The multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) syndrome, which consists of several subtypes (Table 1), was first described in the early 1900’s, and during the century, the clinical features, biochemical characteristics, inheritance and genes, together with the encoded proteins for the MENs, have been defined (reviewed in references 1 and 2). Thus, the MENs represent syndromes of the 20th century, and the progress in...