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Familial Mediterranean Fever in Crete: a genetic and structural biological approach in a population of 'intermediate risk'.
Clinical genetics - 1 Feb 2008
Fragouli E, Eliopoulos E, Petraki E, Sidiropoulos P, Aksentijevich I, Galanakis E, Kritikos H, Repa A, Fragiadakis G, Boumpas Dt, Goulielmos G N
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Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an autosomal, recessively inherited disease, characterized by recurrent and short attacks of fever with serosal inflammation that are caused by mutations in MEFV gene that encodes pyrin protein. To date, more than 70 disease-associated mutations have been ide...
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