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Department of Endocrinology (B.V., F.B.), University Hospital, 21000 Dijon, France; Department of Surgery (P.G., P.C.), University Hospital, 21000 Dijon, France; Department of Endocrinology (A.M.), University Hospital, 44000 Nantes, France; Department of Endocrinology (A.B.), Sart Tilman University, 4000 Liège, Belgium; Department of Nuclear Medicine (G.S.), Hôpital Neuro-Cardiologique, 69000 Lyon, France; and Laboratory of Genetics (B.C., C.M., A.C.), Hôpital Edouard Herriot, 69437 Lyon, France
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Bruno Vergès, Service d’Endocrinologie, Hôpital du Bocage, 2, bd Mal de Lattre de Tassigny, B. P. 1542, 21034 Dijon Cedex, France.
Abstract
To date, data on pituitary adenomas in MEN type 1 (MEN1) still have to be evaluated. We analyzed the data of a large series of 324 MEN1 patients from a French and Belgian multicenter study. Data on pituitary disease were compared with those from 110 non-MEN1 patients with pituitary adenomas, matched for age, year of diagnosis, and follow-up period. Genetic analysis of the MEN1 gene was performed in 197 of the MEN1 patients. In our MEN1 series, pituitary disease occurred in 136 of 324 (42%), less frequently than hyperparathyroidism (95%, P < 0.001) and endocrine enteropancreatic tumors (54%, P < 0.01). Mean age of onset of pituitary tumors was 38.0 ± 15.3 yr (range, 12–83 yr). Pituitary disease was associated with hyperparathyroidism in 90% of cases, with enteropancreatic tumors in 47%, with adrenal tumors in 16%, and with thoracic neuroendocrine tumors in 4%. Pituitary disease was the initial lesion of MEN1 in 17% of all MEN1 patients. MEN1 pituitary adenomas were significantly more frequent in women than in men (50% vs. 31%, P < 0.001). Among the 136 pituitary adenomas, there were 85 prolactinomas and 12 GH-secreting, 6 ACTH-secreting, 13 cosecreting, and 20 nonsecreting tumors. Eighty-five percent of MEN1-related pituitary lesions were macroadenomas (vs. 42% in non-MEN1 patients, P < 0.001), including 32% of invasive cases. Among secreting adenomas, hormonal hypersecretion was normalized, after treatment, in only 42% (vs. 90% in non-MEN1 patients, P < 0.001), with a median follow-up of 11.4 yr. No correlation was found between the type of MEN1 germ-line mutation and the presence or absence of pituitary adenoma.
Our study, based on a large group of MEN1 patients, shows that pituitary adenomas occur in 42% of the cases and are characterized by a larger size and a more aggressive presentation than without MEN1.
MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA type 1 (MEN1) is an inherited disease predisposing to primary hyperparathyroidism, endocrine enteropancreatic tumors, pituitary adenomas, adrenocortical and thymic/bronchial neuroendocrine tumors (1, 2, 3, 4). Most cases occur with a familial history of MEN1, but sporadic cases of MEN1 are now frequently encountered. MEN1 is related to mutations in MEN1, an approximately 10-kb gene encoding menin, localized to chromosome 11q13 (5, 6, 7). The reported prevalence of pituitary adenomas in MEN1 is between 15% and 50% (4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14). This wide range of prevalence values might be related to differences in technical procedures of the different studies and mostly limited number of patients included in each of them (9, 10, 11). Moreover, results of prior studies based on single large MEN1 families require confirmation (2, 13). To date, very little is known about the size, the outcome, and the response to therapy of MEN1-related pituitary adenomas. Thus, to get further insight into pituitary disease in MEN1, we analyzed the data on pituitary adenomas, in a very large group of 324 patients with MEN1 from a French-Belgian multicenter clinical network, the GENEM (Groupe d’Etude des Néoplasies Endocriniennes Multiples) (15, 16). The aim of our study was to clarify data on pituitary disease in MEN1.
Subjects and Methods
Patients
We analyzed the 324 MEN1 cases collected through the GENEM registry and belonging to 22 distinct clinical centers in France and Belgium. The diagnosis of MEN1 was assessed in patients presenting at least 2 out of 3 major MEN1 lesions (hyperparathyroidism, endocrine enteropancreatic, or anterior pituitary tumors), including both those with and without MEN1 germline mutation. Diagnosis of MEN1 was also assessed in patients with a unique major MEN1 lesion and sharing MEN1 germline mutations. Among the 324 MEN1 cases collected in our registry, a genetic diagnosis was performed in 197 patients (167 familial cases from 62 families and 30 from sporadic cases, representing 92 probands) and in related cases of their family, by heteroduplex (HD) analysis of MEN1 exons and introns and further sequencing of abnormal sequences by HD analysis. When HD analysis was negative, the full MEN1 sequence was analyzed as previously described (15). Families with a common ancestor were considered as a single family. Most of the mutations identified in the French series of MEN1 patients were reported in the mutation database included in the GENEM website (http://rockefeller1.univ-lyon1.fr/GENEM/new/database.html or http://umd2.necker.fr: 2006/) based on UMD software (17). All known affected members of each family were included. The study was approved by the ethics committee of Lyon University Hospital, and genetic studies have been performed after informed consent of each patient, according to French laws.
Epidemiological methods
For each patient, data on the multiple endocrine neoplasia were recorded on a file including 164 items. When data were missing or considered as imprecise, an additional query form was sent to the physician in charge of the patient. Age of onset for a feature was the age at the time of diagnosis for this feature. The diagnosis of pituitary lesion was made on radiological data. Diagnosis of secreting pituitary adenoma was made on increased plasma levels of pituitary hormones (PRL, GH, ACTH). Histopathological data were obtained in 50 patients (among the 61 subjects who underwent pituitary surgery); and in 42 of them, immunohistochemistry data were available. Pituitary adenomas were classified according to their size, using the Hardy classification (18). Tumors were classified as microadenomas (grade I) when less than 10 mm in diameter, and as macroadenomas (grades II, III, and IV) when equal or greater than 10 mm in diameter. Grade III (local invasion) and Grade IV (diffuse invasion) macroadenomas were considered as invasive tumors (18).
Control group
Data obtained in MEN 1 patients were compared with those from 110 non-MEN1 patients with pituitary adenomas. These control subjects were randomly selected among a list of patients followed for non-MEN1 pituitary tumors in the different endocrinology departments of the GENEM network. The random selection of the controls matched for age, year of diagnosis, and follow-up period was performed with software from SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL. Each control subject had no other endocrine lesion than the pituitary tumor and no family history of multiple endocrine neoplasia. No control subject had MEN1 mutation testing.
Statistical methods
Results are expressed as mean ± SD. For quantitative data, comparisons were made by using the t test and ANOVA when comparing two or several groups of patients, respectively. For qualitative data, comparisons between groups were based on the chi-square test. Logistic regression analysis was performed using the SPSS, Inc. software. Odds ratio ranges are given with 95% confidence limit.
Results
Frequency, age, and sex distribution of pituitary disease in MEN1
The distribution of the different endocrine lesions, among the 324 MEN1 patients, is shown in Fig. 1
. Among the 324 MEN1 patients, 136 (42%) had pituitary adenomas and 174 (54%) presented endocrine enteropancreatic tumors. Most MEN1 patients (308) were affected by hyperparathyroidism (95%). Adrenal tumors were found in 54 patients (17%), and thymic or bronchial neuroendocrine tumors in 25 patients (8%). The types of enteropancreatic tumors were not different between MEN1 patients with or without pituitary disease. The mean age of onset of pituitary disease (38.0 ± 15.3 yr) was not significantly different from that of hyperparathyroidism (39.4 ± 14.1 yr) or enteropancreatic lesions (40.8 ± 14.0 yr). The age-related penetrance curve of pituitary adenomas in MEN1 is shown in Fig. 2A. The age of onset of pituitary adenomas ranged between 12–83 yr. Twenty five percent of pituitary adenomas were diagnosed before the age of 26 yr, and 75% before the age of 46 yr. Among the 136 pituitary adenomas, only 6 had an isolated pituitary lesion. Pituitary adenomas were significantly more frequent in women than in men (50% vs. 31%, P < 0.001).
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Among the 136 MEN1 patients with pituitary disease, pituitary adenoma was the initial manifestation of MEN1 in 56 cases (17% of all MEN1 patients). Thirty-seven of the 136 patients with pituitary disease had concomitantly diagnosis of pituitary adenoma and another endocrine lesion. The mean age of the patients with pituitary disease as initial manifestation of MEN1 (33.9 ± 14.0 yr) was significantly younger than that of patients showing first an endocrine enteropancreatic tumor (41.6 ± 14.0 yr, P < 0.01) (Table 1). The mean delay between the initial and the subsequent MEN1 endocrine lesion was significantly longer when pituitary disease was the initial MEN1 manifestation (9.0 ± 8.1 yr) than when enteropancreatic tumor (4.1 ± 4.0 yr) or hyperparathyroidism (5.2 ± 5.1 yr) were the initial presentation of MEN1 (Table 1). The proportion of MEN1 patients with pituitary disease was 40% before 1984, 49% between 1984 and 1994, and 34% after 1994. Prevalence of pituitary disease was significantly different among these 3 periods (P < 0.05); but, as shown in Fig. 2B
, the age-related penetrance curve of pituitary disease was not different among the 3 periods. The diagnosis of MEN1 before the age of 25 yr was significantly more frequent after 1994 (26%) than before 1994 (11%) (P < 0.01).
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Among the 136 MEN1 patients with pituitary disease, 75 were familial and 61 sporadic. Prevalence of pituitary disease was significantly higher in sporadic MEN1 patients than in familial MEN1 subjects (59% vs. 34%, P < 0.001). However, among MEN1 patients with at least 2 organs affected, prevalence of pituitary adenomas between sporadic (59%) and familial (47%) cases was not statistically different.
Search for criteria predisposing to pituitary disease
Factors related to the risk of occurrence of pituitary adenoma in MEN1 were searched by multivariate analysis using a multiple logistic regression model. Criteria included were sex, age at time of diagnosis, sporadic or familial case, time of MEN1 diagnosis, onset of death during the follow-up period, and presence of adrenal and/or thymic/bronchial neuroendocrine tumors. Sporadic occurrence of MEN1 [odds ratio: 1.67 (range, 1.29–2.17), P < 0.001] and female sex [odds ratio: 1.42 (range, 1.11–1.82), P < 0.01] were independently associated with an increased prevalence of pituitary disease, whereas other criteria were not. When the multivariate analysis was performed in MEN1 patients with at least two organs affected, only the female sex was associated with prevalence of pituitary adenoma in MEN1 [odds ratio: 1.50 (range, 1.30–1.71), P < 0.01].
Type of pituitary adenomas
Among the 136 pituitary adenomas, 85 were prolactinomas (62%), 12 were GH-secreting adenomas (9%), 6 produced ACTH (4%), and 13 (5 PRL + GH; 2 PRL + FSH; 4 PRL + ACTH, 1 PRL + 
-subunit, and 1 GH + -subunit) were cosecreting adenomas (10%) (Table 2). Twenty of the 136 cases were nonsecreting (15%); and in 2 of 15 nonsecreting adenomas histologically examined, immunohistochemistry was positive for LH and FSH. Eighty-six patients presented clinical manifestations related to pituitary hypersecretion (Table 2). Thirty-nine patients (29%) had clinical manifestations related to the size of the pituitary adenoma (headache alone in 5 patients, visual defects alone in 22, and both in 12). Mean age of patients with prolactinomas was significantly younger than that of other types of pituitary adenomas (35.1 ± 14.8 vs. 43.8 ± 14.4 yr, P < 0.001). No differences were shown among the different types of pituitary adenomas by comparing sex distribution, sporadic and familial MEN1, and the time of occurrence in the course of MEN1. As far as prolactinomas were concerned, there were no significant differences between men and women for age at diagnosis, size of the adenoma, and time of occurrence in the course of MEN1.
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Among the 136 pituitary lesions, 19 were microadenomas (14%), and 116 were macroadenomas (85%), including 43 invasive macroadenomas (grades III and IV from Hardy classification). All the GH and nonsecreting tumors were macroadenomas (including, respectively, 8 and 10 invasive tumors). Among the 85 prolactinomas, 71 were macroadenomas (84%), including 20 invasive tumors. Among the 6 ACTH-secreting adenomas, 3 were macroadenomas (50%), including 1 invasive tumor. Among the 13 cosecreting adenomas, 10 were macroadenomas (77%), including 4 invasive tumors (Table 2). The frequency of macroadenomas was not different between familial and sporadic MEN1 and among age-quartiles. The proportion of pituitary microadenomas was not statistically different between patients diagnosed before 1994 (14%) and those diagnosed after 1994 (16%).
Outcome of pituitary adenomas
Various therapeutic strategies used in our series are shown in Table 3. Each patient was treated optimally in 1 of the 22 multidisciplinary centers from the GENEM sharing similar updated protocols. The median follow-up period for all the MEN1 pituitary adenomas was 11.4 yr (range, 0–47.9 yr). During this follow-up period, death occurred in 4 patients and was directly related to the pituitary lesion in only 1 patient. As far as the 116 patients with pituitary secreting adenomas were concerned, normalization of the pituitary hypersecretion occurred, on treatment, in 49 patients (42%), hormonal hypersecretion persisted in 53 (46%), and hypopituitarism developed after treatment in 8 patients (7%). No data concerning the outcome were available for 6 of the patients (Table 3). Normalization of pituitary hypersecretion occurred in 56% of patients with grade I or II tumor size and only in 33% of patients with grade III or IV tumor size (P < 0.05). Among the 85 prolactinomas, plasma PRL levels were normalized in only 37 patients (44%).
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Data obtained in MEN 1 patients were compared with those from 110 non-MEN1 patients with pituitary adenomas matched for age, year of diagnosis, and follow-up period. As shown in Table 4, the distribution of the types of pituitary adenomas was not significantly different between the 2 groups. The frequency of macroadenomas was significantly higher in MEN1 patients than in non-MEN1 subjects (85% vs. 42%, P < 0.001). Clinical manifestations related to the size of the pituitary adenoma (headache, visual defects) were significantly more frequent in MEN1 patients than in non-MEN1 subjects (29% vs. 14%, P < 0.01). As far as the secreting pituitary adenomas were concerned, normalization of pituitary hypersecretion was much less frequent in MEN1 patients than in non-MEN1 subjects (42% vs. 90%, P < 0.001) (Table 4). Macroprolactinomas were more frequent in MEN1 patients than in non-MEN1 subjects (84% vs. 24%, P < 0.001), and normalization of plasma PRL level was significantly less frequent in MEN1 patients than in non-MEN1 subjects (44% vs. 90%, P < 0.001).
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Among the 197 MEN1 patients (167 familial cases and 30 sporadic cases) who had genetic analysis of the MEN1 gene, germline mutations of the MEN1 gene were found in 150, and a large MEN1 germline deletion in 25 patients from a single family (Lespinasse et al., submitted). In 22 patients, we did not find any MEN1 germline mutations/deletions. A germline mutation/deletion of the MEN1 gene was observed in 63% of the tested sporadic cases and in 93% of the tested familial cases. The 167 familial cases belonged to 62 different families. Among these 62 families, a mutation was found in 54 families, a complete deletion in 1 family (with 25 affected members), and no mutation or deletion in 7 families. Nine families sharing the same mutation [respectively, 2 with 359del4 (exon 2), 2 with R98x (exon 2), 2 with R460x (exon 10), and 3 with 1650insC/G (exon 10)] were shown to be unrelated, using both 11q13 haplotype analysis and ascendant genealogical evaluation, by techniques which have been previously described (15). The mutations observed in our MEN1 patients and the relative penetrance of pituitary disease for each of them are shown in Fig. 3. No obvious genotype-phenotype correlation was observed, and we considered that no specific types and/or locations of mutations might be significantly correlated with the risk of occurrence of pituitary adenoma in our MEN1 series. No differences were observed, between the 197 MEN1 patients for whom genetic testing has been performed and the 127 patients in which genetic testing was not undertaken, for the frequency of pituitary disease (42% vs. 43%), the sex ratio, the distribution of endocrine lesion, the rate of pituitary adenomas as initial lesion of MEN1, the size of the pituitary adenomas, the treatment of pituitary adenomas, and the outcome.
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MEN1 has an estimated prevalence of 0.02–0.2 per 1000 (8). Data on pituitary lesions in MEN1 are uncommon to date, and we consider the present study as the largest one reported so far. In our work including patients from 22 different multidisciplinary centers from the GENEM, in France and Belgium, one would expect a reduced recruitment bias, compared with monocentric reports (10, 11, 13, 19, 20). Thus, our extensive, multicenter, and multidisciplinary study gives the opportunity to obtain representative and indicative information on pituitary disease in MEN1. Moreover, we have been able to compare the data obtained in MEN 1 patients with those from 110 non-MEN1 patients with pituitary adenomas, matched for age, year of diagnosis, and follow-up period. On the basis of several reports that have shown that MEN1 germline mutation testing was not useful in isolated sporadic pituitary adenomas (21, 22, 23), no control subject had MEN1 mutation testing. However, each control subject had no other endocrine lesion than the pituitary tumor at the time of diagnosis, as during the follow-up period, and no family history of multiple endocrine neoplasia, attesting that control subjects were non-MEN1 patients.
Prevalence of pituitary disease among our MEN1 patients was 42%, and this is equivalent or higher than frequencies reported by O’Brien (43%) (20), Öberg (42%) (9), Burgess (18%) (13), Trump (29.5%) (4), and Skogseid (20%) (11) and slightly lower than the prevalence rate reported by Marx (14). However, prevalence of pituitary lesions reported by necropsy studies in MEN1 (65%) suggests that diagnosis of pituitary adenoma may be missed in some patients during the lifetime course of the disease (24). Pituitary disease was the first manifestation of MEN1 in 17% of our patients, which is in agreement with a previous report (25). The mean delay between the initial and the subsequent MEN1 endocrine lesion is significantly longer when pituitary disease is the initial MEN1 manifestation than when enteropancreatic tumor or hyperparathyroidism is the initial presentation of MEN1. This could be attributable, in part, to the younger age of the patients with pituitary disease as initial manifestation of MEN1, but also to a less frequent consideration of MEN1 diagnosis in patients with pituitary adenomas than in patients with endocrine enteropancreatic tumors or hyper- parathyroidism.
We show that MEN1-related pituitary disease may occur at all ages from 12–83 yr. Indeed, pituitary adenomas may be present at an early age, and macroadenomas are as frequent in young as in old patients. This is in agreement with a recent report of an aggressive pituitary adenoma in a 5-yr-old boy with familial MEN1 (26). Previous studies suggested that the onset of pituitary disease in MEN1 could not occur after the age of 60 yr (3, 9, 10, 11). Our results do not support this view and are in agreement with the data reported by Trump et al. (4), who noted that the rate of pituitary adenoma diagnosis in MEN1 was not different below and above 40 yr.
Prevalence of pituitary disease among our MEN1 patients was lower before 1984 than during the 1984–1994 period. This increase is likely to be attributable to the wider use of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. After 1994, the pituitary adenoma diagnosis rate is found to be less important. Diagnosis of MEN1 is performed earlier, since 1994, as a consequence of the generalization of genetic analyses. Thus, the higher rate of young MEN1 patients after 1994 is likely to be the main reason for the reduced pituitary adenoma diagnosis rate during this last period of our study. Indeed, as suspected on the age-related penetrance curve, the younger the patients are, the lower the risk to have a diagnosed pituitary adenoma.
The increased female-to-male ratio in MEN1 patients with pituitary adenoma is equivalent to what has been observed for pituitary adenomas in non-MEN1 patients (27). The influence of sex on the prevalence of pituitary disease in MEN1 is not confounded by other factors, as shown in the multivariate analysis. This increased prevalence of pituitary adenomas in women is not explained. However, a role of estrogens could be considered, because there is experimental evidence that estrogens can amplify tumor growth-promoting factors in pituitary cell lines (28). As suggested by our analysis limited to MEN1 patients with at least two endocrine lesions, the higher frequency of pituitary adenomas in sporadic than familial cases, observed in the whole MEN1 population, is likely to be attributable to the bias that sporadic MEN1 cases must, according to the definition, have two or more organs affected to be diagnosed.
Pituitary adenoma in our MEN1 patients was not associated with a specific type of MEN1 gene mutation. Our results confirm previous studies, which did not show any genotype/phenotype correlation in MEN1 (15, 29, 30, 31).
Prolactinomas represent about two thirds of the pituitary adenomas in our MEN1 patients and may be considered as the most frequent pituitary lesion in MEN1, confirming previously reported data obtained in a limited number of patients and families (9, 10, 13, 32). According to our results, the high frequency (85%) of pituitary macroadenomas seems to be an important feature of pituitary disease in MEN1. Because most of our MEN1 patients were symptomatic, we cannot completely exclude the possibility that some asymptomatic and small pituitary tumors have been missed in some families. However, after 1994, despite an earlier age of MEN1 diagnosis and a more developed MEN1 family screening, the proportion of pituitary microadenomas was not different than before 1994, suggesting that the number of missed asymptomatic and small pituitary tumors is likely to be very small. This prevalence of macroadenomas is significantly higher than in our control non-MEN 1 group. Our data point out the high prevalence (84%) of macroadenomas in MEN1-related prolactinomas, compared with those observed in non-MEN1 patients, from our study (24%), as from the literature (<30%) (33, 34). The increased prevalence of invasive macroadenomas in MEN1 suggests that pituitary tumors might be more proliferative in MEN1 patients than in non-MEN1 patients.
In previous studies, prolactinomas in MEN1 have been considered comparable, in both clinical behavior and response to treatment, to those occurring in non-MEN1 patients (10, 35). However, our data, as those of Burgess (36), suggest a more aggressive natural history of prolactinomas in MEN1. Indeed, we show that prolactinomas in MEN1 are characterized by a larger size but also by a worse response to therapy. Thus, our data suggest that prolactinomas in MEN1 may be more aggressive than those occurring in non-MEN1 patients.
In our series, treatment of pituitary adenomas had a higher success rate at earlier tumor stages. Moreover, several studies have shown that the control of pituitary secreting adenomas is more frequent in microadenomas (80–90%) than in macroadenomas (60–75%) (37, 38, 39, 40). Thus, it seems reasonable to recommend earlier diagnosis of pituitary adenomas in MEN1, to increase the rate of control of pituitary secreting adenomas.
In conclusion, pituitary disease is a major component of MEN1; and we show, based on a large population study, that it occurs in 42% of the MEN1 patients. The majority of pituitary adenomas are prolactinomas. Compared with pituitary adenomas in the non-MEN1 population, pituitary lesions in MEN1 are characterized by a higher frequency of macroadenomas and a worse response to treatment. This suggests that pituitary adenomas in MEN1 may be more aggressive than those occurring in the non-MEN1 patients.
Acknowledgments
Clinical and genetic studies on MEN1 were performed in the GENEM.
Footnotes
This work was supported by grants from the Ministère de la Santé (PHRC 97-048—Hospices Civils de Lyon) and a research contract from the Association pour le Recherche contre le Cancer (ARC no. 9211).
Coauthors of the GENEM network are: L. Baldet, C. Bauters, J. P. Bercovivi, N. Berger, G. Cadiot, B. Carnaille, P. Caron, O. Chabre, G. Chabrier, P. Chanson, Y. Chapuis, J. A. Chayvialle, J. P. Chigot, B. Conte-Delvox, C. Corcuff, P. Cubertafond, M. Delcoux, B. Delemer, G. De Micco, A. Denizot, D. Dewailly, P. Emy, J. P. Flament, J. M. Guliana, P. Hamon, B. Hamon, A. Hubens, J. F. Henry, P. Jaquet, D. Jaeck, P. Jais, J. L. Kraimps, J. M. Kuhn, J. D. Lalau, M. F. Le Bodic, P. Lecomte, M. Lecomte-Houcke, J. C. Le Neel, F. Leprat, J. Lespinasse, G. Mantion, T. Marmousez, M. Meurisse, M. Mignon, E. Modigliani, P. Nicolli-Sire, M. Parneix, C. Partensky, V. Pascal, F. Pattou, J. L. Peix, F. Penformis, N. Porchet, C. Proye, J. P. Riou, M. Rodier, P. Roger, J. L. Sadoul, J. P. Saint-André, G. Samama, E. Sarfati, M. Schlumberger, F. Schillo, A. Tabarin, J. Tourniaire, J. Trouillas, J. Visset, C. Waterlot, J. L. Wemeau, and N. Wion-Barbot.
Abbreviations: GENEM, Groupe d’Etude des Néoplasies Endocriniennes Multiples; HD, heteroduplex; MEN1, MEN type 1.
Received June 27, 2000.
Accepted September 29, 2001.
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