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Familial mediterranean fever in Arabs.
Lancet (London, England) - 25 Mar 2006
El-Shanti Hatem, Majeed Hasan Abdel, El-Khateeb Mohammed
Abstract excerpt
Autoinflammatory diseases are a group of disorders characterised by seemingly unprovoked inflammation in the absence of high-titre autoantibodies or antigen-specific T cells, and include the hereditary periodic fever syndromes. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an archetypal autoinflammatory disorder, which is autosomal recessive and has a high prevalence in non-Ashkenazi Jews, Armenians, Turks, and Arabs....
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