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. 2019 Jan 17;11(1):103. doi: 10.3390/cancers11010103

Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of carriers of pathogenic variants in succinate dehydrogenase subunits B and D (SDHB and SDHD).

Clinical Characteristics SDHB
n = 192
SDHD
n = 232
Male (%)/female (%) 81 (42.2)/111 (57.8) 123 (53.0)/109 (47.0)
Mean age at genetic testing 46 years (range 9–77) 44 years (range 16–73)
HNPGL (%) 53 (27.6) 198 (85.3)
sPGL (%) 26 (13.5) 18 (7.8)
Pheochromocytoma (%) 4 (2.1) 16 (6.9)
Malignant PGL (%) 14 (7.3) 4 (1.7)
Unaffected (%) 110 (57.3) 30 (12.9)

HNPGL = head and neck paraganglioma, sPGL = sympathetic paraganglioma, PGL = paraganglioma.