Abstract
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is a hereditary cancer syndrome caused by germline mutations of the MEN1 gene located in chromosome 11q13. In patients with MEN1, multicentric tumors develop in the involved organs; however, precise evaluation of genetic changes in these multicentric tumors has not been performed. In the present study, using whole-exome sequencing, we analyzed germline and somatic genetic changes in blood cells, two pancreatic endocrine tumors and one duodenal tumor obtained from a patient with MEN1 gastrinoma. We found that this patient possessed a novel germline mutation of the MEN1 gene [NM_137099.2:c.1505dupA (p.Lys502Lysfs); the localization was Chr11:64572134 on Assembly GRCh37], in which an adenine insertion in codon 502 of the MEN1 gene resulted in a frame shift and a premature stop codon. In terms of heterozygosity, the mutated allele was heterozygous in blood cells, hemizygous in the two pancreatic tumors and homozygous in the duodenal tumor. Immunohistochemical staining confirmed that only truncated menin protein accumulated in the nucleus of the tumor tissues. Further evaluation of tumor-specific somatic mutations in two pancreatic tumors did not detect single-nucleotide variations (SNVs) i...Continue Reading
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