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#4256 Epigenetic prediction of aging and metabolic traits provides insight into tumor biology in multi-focal ileal neuroendocrine tumors

Introduction: Approximately half of small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (siNETs) are multifocal, and recent investigations into the genetic architecture of these tumors have found that they are not clonal. Due to the low mutational rate and slow growing nature of these small tumors, the ‘timing’ of the development of individual tumors has not been possible.

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Authors: Webster A, Makinen N, Ecker S, Beck S, Nakakura E,

Keywords: DNA methylation, Epigenetics, Multifocal Ileal Neuroendocrine Tumor, Multifocal Small Instestinal NET, Metabolic Traits,

#3805 Transcriptomic analyses of multifocal ileal neuroendocrine tumors

Introduction: Small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors are mostly located in the distal ileum with a high incidence of multiple synchronous primary tumors. To date, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at chr18 has been the most frequent genomic event identified, occurring in ~60% of tumors. Recently, we showed that synchronous primary tumors from the same ileal NET patient display distinct somatic mutational profiles, including distinct patterns of chr18 LOH, suggesting these tumors originate independently. Thus, new mechanistic insights into multifocal ileal NETs are urgently needed.

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Authors: Mäkinen N, Zhang Z, Munn S, Kasai Y, Kim G,

Keywords: Multifocal ileal NETs, RNA-sequencing, Gene expression,