A pilot genome-wide association study shows genomic variants enriched in the non-tumor cells of patients with well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors of the ileum.
We describe a father and son with MEN1, associated with thymic carcinoid (father) and the truncating mutation R29X (son), which was not previously reported in MEN1-related thymic carcinoid, and review the literature about thymic carcinoids in MEN1.