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Allelic variants in genes associated with hereditary periodic fever syndromes as susceptibility factors for reactive systemic AA amyloidosis.
Genes and immunity - 1 Jun 2004
Aganna E, Hawkins P N, Ozen S, Pettersson T, Bybee A, McKee S A, Lachmann H J, Karenko L, Ranki A, Bakkaloglu A, Besbas N, Topaloglu R, Hoffman H M, Hitman G A, Woo P, McDermott M F
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the hypothesis that low-penetrance mutations in genes (TNFRSF1A, MEFV and NALP3/CIAS1) associated with hereditary periodic fever syndromes (HPFs) might be risk factors for AA amyloidosis among patients with chronic inflammatory disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), juven...
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