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On the association of succinate dehydrogenase mutations with hereditary paraganglioma.
Trends in endocrinology and metabolism: TEM - 1 Dec 2003
Baysal Bora E
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary paraganglioma (PGL) is characterized by the development of slow-growing, highly vascularized tumors that can present either as hormonally silent head and neck tumors or as abdominal pheochromocytomas. PGL tumors are caused by germline inactivating heterozygous mutations in the SDHB, SDHC and SDHD genes, which encode three of the four subunits of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH; succinate:ubiquinone...
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