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ReviewJournal of internal medicine2009

SDH mutations in tumorigenesis and inherited endocrine tumours: lesson from the phaeochromocytoma-paraganglioma syndromes.

B Pasini, C A Stratakis

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Review in Journal of internal medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 121 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
121citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

121 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 273 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Predictors of recurrence of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: a multicenter study in Piedmont, Italy.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2020
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  10. Treatment with radiotherapy in carotidal paraganglioma: experience of the General Hospital of Mexico.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2025
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  17. Advancing the neuroimaging diagnosis and understanding of mitochondrial disorders.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

B PasiniDepartment of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Via Santena 19, Turin 10126, Italy. barbara.pasini@unito.it
C A Stratakis
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · USUniversity of Turin · IT

Funding

Molecular Genetics Of Adrenocortical Tumors And Related DisordersZIAHD000642 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI STRATAKIS, CONSTANTINE A. · 2009 to 2011
$9.6M
Molecular Genetics Of Adrenocortical Tumors And Related DisordersZ01HD000642 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI STRATAKIS, CONSTANTINE A. · 1998 to 2008
$4.7M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 HD000642Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD000642NICHD NIH HHS Z01-HD-000642-04
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A genetic predisposition for paragangliomas and adrenal or extra-adrenal phaeochromocytomas was recognized years ago. Beside the well-known syndromes associated with an increased risk of adrenal phaeochromocytoma, Von Hippel Lindau disease, multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 and neurofibromatosis type 1, the study of inherited predisposition to head and neck paragangliomas led to the discovery of the novel 'paraganglioma-phaeochromocytoma syndrome' caused by germline mutations in three genes encoding subunits of the succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) enzyme (SDHB, SDHC and SDHD) thus opening an unexpected connection between mitochondrial tumour suppressor genes and neural crest-derived cancers. Germline mutations in SDH genes are responsible for 6% and 9% of sporadic paragangliomas and phaeochromocytomas, respectively, 29% of paediatric cases, 38% of malignant tumours and more than 80% of familial aggregations of paraganglioma and phaeochromocytoma. The disease is characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance with a peculiar parent-of-origin effect for SDHD mutations. Life-time tumour risk seems higher than 70% with variable clinical manifestantions depending on the mutated gene. In this review we summarize the most recent knowledge about the role of SDH deficiency in tumorigenesis, the spectrum and prevalence of SDH mutations derived from several series of cases, the related clinical manifestantions including rare phenotypes, such as the association of paragangliomas with gastrointestinal stromal tumours and kidney cancers, and the biological hypotheses attempting to explain genotype to phenotype correlation.

Indexed as

Germ-Line MutationAdolescentAdrenal Gland NeoplasmsAdultAgedCell Transformation, NeoplasticChildChild, PreschoolGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseHead and Neck NeoplasmsHumansMiddle AgedNeoplastic Syndromes, HereditaryParagangliomaPheochromocytomaSuccinate DehydrogenaseSuccinate Dehydrogenase

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PMID19522823
PMCPMC3163304
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