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Molecular study of FMF patients in Armenia.
Current drug targets. Inflammation and allergy - 1 Feb 2005
Sarkisian T, Ajrapetyan H, Shahsuvaryan G
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF, MIM 249100), or Periodic disease, is a recessively transmitted and ethnically restricted condition prevalent in population from the Mediterranean decent. FMF notoriously has been hard to diagnose until mutations in the MEFV gene have been identified and as a tremendous help are used for the diagnosis of difficult cases. Since FMF can be controlled by medication, it is extremely...
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