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Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes and autoinflammation.
Clinical and experimental dermatology - 1 Jan 2008
Shinkai K, McCalmont T H, Leslie K S
Abstract excerpt
Autoinflammatory syndromes are a distinct class of inherited diseases of cytokine dysregulation with important cutaneous features. Several disorders, including familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome (FCAS), Muckle-Wells syndrome and neonatal onset multisystem inflammatory disorder (NOMID), are associated with mutations in a common gene, CIAS-1. These disorders are now believed to represent related conditions...
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