A Japanese Family Meeting the Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for MEN1 with a MEN1 Variant of Uncertain Significance

Intern Med. 2024 Apr 15;63(8):1119-1123. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.2300-23. Epub 2023 Sep 1.

Abstract

Multiple gastroenteric, pancreatic, and pituitary neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) were diagnosed in a 74-year-old man with a history of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). Germline testing demonstrated a variant of MEN1 (c.1694T>A, p.L565Q), whose pathogenicity was classified as a variant of uncertain significance (VUS) according to the ACMG/AMP guidelines. The same germline variant was detected in the patient's son and daughter, who also showed PHPT or hypercalcemia and met the clinical diagnostic criteria for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1). During surveillance of the son, multiple pancreatic tumors suggestive of NENs were detected. The pathogenicity of the current MEN1 variant was re-evaluated as likely pathogenic, based on additional family data.

Keywords: MEN1; neuroendocrine tumor; pancreas; variant of uncertain significance.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • East Asian People / genetics
  • Germ-Line Mutation
  • Humans
  • Japan
  • Male
  • Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1* / diagnosis
  • Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1* / genetics
  • Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1* / pathology
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors* / pathology
  • Pituitary Neoplasms*
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins / genetics

Substances

  • MEN1 protein, human
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins

Supplementary concepts

  • Japanese people