Talk:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2

Lincoln
i came here because of the current controversy regrding dna tests on lincoln. i gotta say 'characteristic musculoskeletal and gastrointestinal features', isn't very helpful. what are they? is unusual height among them? also, what is the incidence of this disorder in the population today,vs 1/5000 for marfan syndrome? Toyokuni3 (talk) 14:27, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I moved the whole section to here, because it needs to stop being a trivia section as well before reinsertion:Mikael Häggström (talk) 13:26, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Trivia
In November 2007, cardiologist John G. Sotos announced his hypothesis that Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), had MEN 2B.

In 2006 a family in south london were diagnosed with this. Since then many of them have had thyroidectomies and other operations.