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Inherited autoinflammatory recurrent fevers.
European annals of allergy and clinical immunology - 1 Jan 2006
Pradalier A, Cauvain A, Oukachbi Z
Abstract excerpt
Autoinflammatory diseases have a quite similar clinical picture and are characterised by recurrent episodes of fever, joint features, abdominal features and skin features. Auto-inflammatory syndrome are related to mutations in genes implied in apoptosis or inflammation. FMF's gene is MEFV, present on the short arm of the chromosom 6, encoding the pyrin or marenostrie which is widely expressed in neutrophils and...
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