Patricia L.M. Dahia, Assistant Professor; M.D., Ph.D.
Telephone: (210) 567-4866 E-mail: dahia@uthscsa.edu

The laboratory's main focus is the utilization of genomics-based approaches to study the signaling interaction between metabolic defects and cancer. For these studies, we take advantage of a natural disease model, the inactivating mutations of
succinate dehydrogenase (SDH).  SDH is a component of energy metabolism and loss-of-function SDH mutations cause hereditary tumors, pheochromocytomas.
 


 

Toledo RA, Lourenzo DM Jr, Liberman B, Cunha-Neto MB, Cavalcanti MG, Moyses CB, Toledo SP, Dahia PL.
Germline mutation in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor interacting protein gene in familial somatotropinoma.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 May;92(5):1934-7. Epub 2007 Mar 6.
PMID: 17341560

Wen PY, Yung WK, Lamborn KR, Dahia PL, Wang Y, Peng B, Abrey LE, Raizer J, Cloughesy TF, Fink K, Gilbert M, Chang S, Junck L, Schiff D, Lieberman F, Fine HA, Mehta M, Robins HI, DeAngelis LM, Groves MD, Puduvalli VK, Levin V, Conrad C, Maher EA, Aldape K, Hayes M, Letvak L, Egorin MJ, Capdeville R, Kaplan R, Murgo AJ, Stiles C, Prados MD.
Phase I/II study of imatinib mesylate for recurrent malignant gliomas: North American Brain Tumor Consortium Study 99-08.
Clin Cancer Res. 2006 Aug 15;12(16):4899-907.
PMID: 16914578

Dahia PL; Familial Pheochromocytoma Consortium.
Transcription association of VHL and SDH mutations link hypoxia and oxidoreductase signals in pheochromocytomas.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2006 Aug;1073:208-20. Review.
PMID: 17102089

Jech M, Alvarado-Cabrero I, Albores-Saavedra J, Dahia PL, Tischler AS.
Genetic analysis of high altitude paragangliomas.
Endocr Pathol. 2006 Summer;17(2):201-2. Review. No abstract available.
PMID: 17159253

Benn DE, Gimenez-Roqueplo AP, Reilly JR, Bertherat J, Burgess J, Byth K, Croxson M, Dahia PL, Elston M, Gimm O, Henley D, Herman P, Murday V, Niccoli-Sire P, Pasieka JL, Rohmer V, Tucker K, Jeunemaitre X, Marsh DJ, Plouin PF, Robinson BG.
Clinical presentation and penetrance of pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndromes.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Mar;91(3):827-36. Epub 2005 Nov 29.
PMID: 16317055

Dahia PL.
Evolving concepts in pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma.
Curr Opin Oncol. 2006 Jan;18(1):1-8. Review.
PMID: 16357557

Dahia PL, Hao K, Rogus J, Colin C, Pujana MA, Ross K, Magoffin D, Aronin N, Cascon A, Hayashida CY, Li C, Toledo SP, Stiles CD; Familial Pheochromocytoma Consortium.
Novel pheochromocytoma susceptibility loci identified by integrative genomics.
Cancer Res. 2005 Nov 1;65(21):9651-8.
PMID: 16266984

Arum SM, Dahia PL, Schneider K, Braverman LE.
A RET mutation with decreased penetrance in the family of a patient with a "sporadic" pheochromocytoma.
Endocrine. 2005 Nov;28(2):193-8.
PMID: 16388093

Dahia PL, Ross KN, Wright ME, Hayashida CY, Santagata S, Barontini M, Kung AL, Sanso G, Powers JF, Tischler AS, Hodin R, Heitritter S, Moore F, Dluhy R, Sosa JA, Ocal IT, Benn DE, Marsh DJ, Robinson BG, Schneider K, Garber J, Arum SM, Korbonits M, Grossman A, Pigny P, Toledo SP, Nose V, Li C, Stiles CD.
A HIF1alpha regulatory loop links hypoxia and mitochondrial signals in pheochromocytomas.
PLoS Genet. 2005 Jul;1(1):72-80. Epub 2005 Jul 25.
PMID: 16103922

Eisenhofer G, Bornstein SR, Brouwers FM, Cheung NK, Dahia PL, de Krijger RR, Giordano TJ, Greene LA, Goldstein DS, Lehnert H, Manger WM, Maris JM, Neumann HP, Pacak K, Shulkin BL, Smith DI, Tischler AS, Young WF Jr.
Malignant pheochromocytoma: current status and initiatives for future progress.
Endocr Relat Cancer. 2004 Sep;11(3):423-36. Review.
PMID: 15369446

Astuti D, Latif F, Dallol A, Dahia PL, Douglas F, George E, Skoldberg F, Husebye ES, Eng C, Maher ER.
Gene mutations in the succinate dehydrogenase subunit SDHB cause susceptibility to familial pheochromocytoma and to familial paraganglioma.
Am J Hum Genet. 2001 Jul;69(1):49-54. Epub 2001 Jun 12. Erratum in: Am J Hum Genet 2002 Feb;70(2):565.
PMID: 11404820

Aguiar RC, Cox G, Pomeroy SL, Dahia PL.
Analysis of the SDHD gene, the susceptibility gene for familial paraganglioma syndrome (PGL1), in pheochromocytomas.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2001 Jun;86(6):2890-4.
PMID: 11397905

Gimm O, Chi H, Dahia PL, Perren A, Hinze R, Komminoth P, Dralle H, Reynolds PR, Eng C.
Somatic mutation and germline variants of MINPP1, a phosphatase gene located in proximity to PTEN on 10q23.3, in follicular thyroid carcinomas.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2001 Apr;86(4):1801-5.
PMID: 11297621

Dahia PL, Eng C.
Hereditary endocrine neoplasias: fundamental insights and the practice of clinical cancer genetics.
Front Horm Res. 2001;28:8-19. Review. No abstract available.
PMID: 11443854

Aguiar RC, Dahia PL.
Identification and characterization of disease-related genes: focus on endocrine neoplasias.
Front Horm Res. 2001;28:20-49. Review. No abstract available.
PMID: 11443852

Dahia PL, Eng C.
Genetic disorders of endocrine neoplasia. Introduction..
Front Horm Res. 2001;28:1-7. No abstract available.
PMID: 11443848

Dahia PL.
PTEN, a unique tumor suppressor gene.
Endocr Relat Cancer. 2000 Jun;7(2):115-29. Review.
PMID: 10903528

Yeh JJ, Lunetta KL, van Orsouw NJ, Moore FD Jr, Mutter GL, Vijg J, Dahia PL, Eng C.
Somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in papillary thyroid carcinomas and differential mtDNA sequence variants in cases with thyroid tumours.
Oncogene. 2000 Apr 13;19(16):2060-6.
PMID: 10803467

Weng LP, Smith WM, Dahia PL, Ziebold U, Gil E, Lees JA, Eng C.
PTEN suppresses breast cancer cell growth by phosphatase activity-dependent G1 arrest followed by cell death.
Cancer Res. 1999 Nov 15;59(22):5808-14.
PMID: 10582703

Perren A, Weng LP, Boag AH, Ziebold U, Thakore K, Dahia PL, Komminoth P, Lees JA, Mulligan LM, Mutter GL, Eng C.
Immunohistochemical evidence of loss of PTEN expression in primary ductal adenocarcinomas of the breast.
Am J Pathol. 1999 Oct;155(4):1253-60.
PMID: 10514407

Duerr EM, Gimm O, Neuberg DS, Kum JB, Clifford SC, Toledo SP, Maher ER, Dahia PL, Eng C.
Differences in allelic distribution of two polymorphisms in the VHL-associated gene CUL2 in pheochromocytoma patients without somatic CUL2 mutations.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1999 Sep;84(9):3207-11.
PMID: 10487688

Jacobs RA, Schaad NC, Vanecek J, Leaver S, Aubry JM, Korf HW, Dahia PL, Chew SL, Grossman AB.
Pineal nitric oxide synthase, but not heme oxygenase, mRNA is suppressed by continuous exposure to light.
Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 1999 Jul 5;70(2):264-72.
PMID: 10407174

Gimm O, Gossling A, Marsh DJ, Dahia PL, Mulligan LM, von Deimling A, Eng C.
Mutation and deletion analysis of GFR alpha-1, encoding the co-receptor for the GDNF/RET complex, in human brain tumours.
Br J Cancer. 1999 May;80(3-4):383-6.
PMID: 10408842

Dahia PL, Grossman AB.
The molecular pathogenesis of corticotroph tumors.
Endocr Rev. 1999 Apr;20(2):136-55. Review. No abstract available.
PMID: 10204115

Gimm O, Neuberg DS, Marsh DJ, Dahia PL, Hoang-Vu C, Raue F, Hinze R, Dralle H, Eng C.
Over-representation of a germline RET sequence variant in patients with sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma and somatic RET codon 918 mutation.
Oncogene. 1999 Feb 11;18(6):1369-73.
PMID: 10022819

Dahia PL, Aguiar RC, Alberta J, Kum JB, Caron S, Sill H, Marsh DJ, Ritz J, Freedman A, Stiles C, Eng C.
PTEN is inversely correlated with the cell survival factor Akt/PKB and is inactivated via multiple mechanismsin haematological malignancies.
Hum Mol Genet. 1999 Feb;8(2):185-93.
PMID: 9931326

Marsh DJ, Dahia PL, Caron S, Kum JB, Frayling IM, Tomlinson IP, Hughes KS, Eeles RA, Hodgson SV, Murday VA, Houlston R, Eng C.
Germline PTEN mutations in Cowden syndrome-like families.
J Med Genet. 1998 Nov;35(11):881-5.
PMID: 9832031

Korbonits M, Jacobs RA, Aylwin SJ, Burrin JM, Dahia PL, Monson JP, Honegger J, Fahlbush R, Trainer PJ, Chew SL, Besser GM, Grossman AB.
Expression of the growth hormone secretagogue receptor in pituitary adenomas and other neuroendocrine tumors.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1998 Oct;83(10):3624-30.
PMID: 9768675

Dahia PL, FitzGerald MG, Zhang X, Marsh DJ, Zheng Z, Pietsch T, von Deimling A, Haluska FG, Haber DA, Eng C.
A highly conserved processed PTEN pseudogene is located on chromosome band 9p21.
Oncogene. 1998 May 7;16(18):2403-6.
PMID: 9620558

Kostoglou-Athanassiou I, Jacobs RA, Satta MA, Dahia PL, Costa A, Navarra P, Chew SL, Forsling ML, Grossman AB.
Acute and subacute effects of endotoxin on hypothalamic gaseous neuromodulators.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1998 May 1;840:249-61.
PMID: 9629253

Marsh DJ, Coulon V, Lunetta KL, Rocca-Serra P, Dahia PL, Zheng Z, Liaw D, Caron S, Duboue B, Lin AY, Richardson AL, Bonnetblanc JM, Bressieux JM, Cabarrot-Moreau A, Chompret A, Demange L, Eeles RA, Yahanda AM, Fearon ER, Fricker JP, Gorlin RJ, Hodgson SV, Huson S, Lacombe D, Eng C, et al.
Mutation spectrum and genotype-phenotype analyses in Cowden disease and Bannayan-Zonana syndrome, two hamartoma syndromes with germline PTEN mutation.
Hum Mol Genet. 1998 Mar;7(3):507-15.
PMID: 9467011

Dahia PL, Aguiar RC, Honegger J, Fahlbush R, Jordan S, Lowe DG, Lu X, Clayton RN, Besser GM, Grossman AB.
Mutation and expression analysis of the p27/kip1 gene in corticotrophin-secreting tumours.
Oncogene. 1998 Jan 8;16(1):69-76.
PMID: 9467944

Marsh DJ, Dahia PL, Coulon V, Zheng Z, Dorion-Bonnet F, Call KM, Little R, Lin AY, Eeles RA, Goldstein AM, Hodgson SV, Richardson AL, Robinson BG, Weber HC, Longy M, Eng C.
Allelic imbalance, including deletion of PTEN/MMACI, at the Cowden disease locus on 10q22-23, in hamartomas from patients with Cowden syndrome and germline PTEN mutation.
Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 1998 Jan;21(1):61-9.
PMID: 9443042

Marsh DJ, Roth S, Lunetta KL, Hemminki A, Dahia PL, Sistonen P, Zheng Z, Caron S, van Orsouw NJ, Bodmer WF, Cottrell SE, Dunlop MG, Eccles D, Hodgson SV, Jarvinen H, Kellokumpu I, Markie D, Neale K, Phillips R, Rozen P, Syngal S, Vijg J, Tomlinson IP, Aaltonen LA, Eng C.
Exclusion of PTEN and 10q22-24 as the susceptibility locus for juvenile polyposis syndrome.
Cancer Res. 1997 Nov 15;57(22):5017-21.
PMID: 9371495

Dahia PL, Marsh DJ, Zheng Z, Zedenius J, Komminoth P, Frisk T, Wallin G, Parsons R, Longy M, Larsson C, Eng C.
Somatic deletions and mutations in the Cowden disease gene, PTEN, in sporadic thyroid tumors.
Cancer Res. 1997 Nov 1;57(21):4710-3.
PMID: 9354427

Arlt W, Dahia PL, Callies F, Nordmeyer JP, Allolio B, Grossman AB, Reincke M.
Ectopic ACTH production by a bronchial carcinoid tumour responsive to desmopressin in vivo and in vitro.
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1997 Nov;47(5):623-7.
PMID: 9425403

Gimm O, Marsh DJ, Andrew SD, Frilling A, Dahia PL, Mulligan LM, Zajac JD, Robinson BG, Eng C.
Germline dinucleotide mutation in codon 883 of the RET proto-oncogene in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B without codon 918 mutation.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1997 Nov;82(11):3902-4.
PMID: 9360560

Jacobs RA, Satta MA, Dahia PL, Chew SL, Grossman AB.
Induction of nitric oxide synthase and interleukin-1beta, but not heme oxygenase, messenger RNA in rat brain following peripheral administration of endotoxin.
Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 1997 Oct 3;49(1-2):238-46.
PMID: 9387883

Marsh DJ, Dahia PL, Zheng Z, Liaw D, Parsons R, Gorlin RJ, Eng C.
Germline mutations in PTEN are present in Bannayan-Zonana syndrome.
Nat Genet. 1997 Aug;16(4):333-4. No abstract available.
PMID: 9241266

Liaw D, Marsh DJ, Li J, Dahia PL, Wang SI, Zheng Z, Bose S, Call KM, Tsou HC, Peacocke M, Eng C, Parsons R.
Germline mutations of the PTEN gene in Cowden disease, an inherited breast and thyroid cancer syndrome.
Nat Genet. 1997 May;16(1):64-7.
PMID: 9140396

Dahia PL, Honegger J, Reincke M, Jacobs RA, Mirtella A, Fahlbusch R, Besser GM, Chew SL, Grossman AB.
Expression of glucocorticoid receptor gene isoforms in corticotropin-secreting tumors.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1997 Apr;82(4):1088-93.
PMID: 9100578

Dahia PL, Toledo SP, Mulligan LM, Maher ER, Grossman AB, Eng C.
Mutation analysis of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), a ligand for the RET/GDNF receptor alpha complex, in sporadic phaeochromocytomas.
Cancer Res. 1997 Jan 15;57(2):310-3.
PMID: 9000574

Toledo SP, Brunner HG, Kraaij R, Post M, Dahia PL, Hayashida CY, Kremer H Themmen AP.
An inactivating mutation of the luteinizing hormone receptor causes amenorrhea in a 46,XX female.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1996 Nov;81(11):3850-4.
PMID: 8923827

Aguiar RC, Dahia PL, Sill H, Toledo SP, Goldman JM, Cross NC.
Deletion analysis of the p16 tumour suppressor gene in phaeochromocytomas.
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 1996 Jul;45(1):93-6.
PMID: 8796144

Dahia PL, Ahmed-Shuaib A, Jacobs RA, Chew SL, Honegger J, Fahlbusch R, Besser GM, Grossman AB.
Vasopressin receptor expression and mutation analysis in corticotropin-secreting tumors.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1996 May;81(5):1768-71.
PMID: 8626831

Eng C, Crossey PA, Mulligan LM, Healey CS, Houghton C, Prowse A, Chew SL, Dahia PL, O'Riordan JL, Toledo SP, et al.
Mutations in the RET proto-oncogene and the von Hippel-Lindau disease tumour suppressor gene in sporadic and syndromic phaeochromocytomas.
J Med Genet. 1995 Dec;32(12):934-7.
PMID: 8825918

Dahia PL, Aguiar RC, Tsanaclis AM, Bendit I, Bydlowski SP, Abelin NM, Toledo SP.
Molecular and immunohistochemical analysis of P53 in phaeochromocytoma.
Br J Cancer. 1995 Nov;72(5):1211-3.
PMID: 7577469

Aguiar RC, Dahia PL, Bendit I, Beitler B, Dorlhiac P, Bydlowski S, Chamone D.
Further evidence for the lack of correlation between the breakpoint site within M-BCR and CML prognosis and for the occasional involvement of p53 in transformation.
Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 1995 Oct 15;84(2):105-12.
PMID: 8536222

Dahia PL, Hayashida CY, Strunz C, Abelin N, Toledo SP.
Low cord blood levels of catecholamine from a newborn of a pheochromocytoma patient.
Eur J Endocrinol. 1994 Mar;130(3):217-9.
PMID: 8156092