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Spectrum of clinical features in Muckle-Wells syndrome and response to anakinra.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Feb 2004
Hawkins Philip N, Lachmann Helen J, Aganna Ebun, McDermott Michael F
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Mutations in the NALP3/CIAS1/PYPAF1 gene are associated with the autoinflammatory diseases Muckle-Wells syndrome (MWS), familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), and neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID), which is also known as chronic infantile neurologic, cutaneous, articular (CINCA) syndrome. Molecular studies suggest that NALP3 is involved in the processing of...
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