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It starts with the paper of Phan and gives the modern treatments and the relations with geometric objects like Curtis-Tits theory, amalgams, buildings including twin buildings and flip-flop geometries. It ends collecting the main results of the theory, which read as follows. A Phan system related to a spherical Dynkin diagram \\(\\Delta\\) is a set of subgroups \\(U_\\alpha=\\text{SU}_2(q^2)\\) of a group \\(G\\) indexed by the nodes of \\(\\Delta\\). Further we have that \\([U_\\alpha,U_\\beta]=1\\) if \\(\\alpha\\) and \\(\\beta\\) are not connected in \\(\\Delta\\), \\(\\langle U_\\alpha,U_\\beta\\rangle\\cong\\text{(P)SU}_3(q^2)\\) if \\(\\alpha\\) and \\(\\beta\\) are connected by a single bond and \\(\\langle U_\\alpha,U_\\beta\\rangle\\cong\\text{(P)Sp}_4(q)\\) if they are connected by a double bond. In the last two cases we also ask for a special embedding of \\(U_\\alpha\\), \\(U_\\beta\\) in \\(\\langle U_\\alpha,U_\\beta\\rangle\\). 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