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Familial autoinflammatory diseases: genetics, pathogenesis and treatment
9 Aug 2005
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The systemic autoinflammatory diseases are characterized by seemingly unprovoked inflammation, without major involvement of the adaptive immune system. This review focuses mainly on a subset of these illnesses, the hereditary recurrent fevers, which include familial Mediterranean fever, the tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome, the hyperimmunoglobulinemia D with periodic...
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