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Familial Mediterranean fever in 2 Japanese families.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Jun 2002
Shinozaki Koji, Agematsu Kazunaga, Yasui Kozo, Nagumo Haruo, Naitoh Hajime, Naganuma Kuniaki, Komiyama Atsushi
Abstract excerpt
We describe 3 Japanese patients in 2 families with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) as determined by gene analysis. FMF is an ethnically related, genetic disease, occurring commonly in some Mediterranean populations. The FMF gene (MEFV) mutation found in our patients is M694I. The patients may be remote from East Asian extraction.
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