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Familial Mediterranean fever gene and protection against asthma.
Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology - 1 Dec 2007
Rabinovitch Einat, Harats Dror, Yaron Pnina, Luvish Tamar, Lidar Merav, Kedem Ron, Shaish Aviv, Ben-Dov Issahar, Livneh Avi
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BACKGROUND: Asthma is an inflammatory airway disease caused by interaction between susceptibility genes and diverse environmental factors. In Israel, asthma seems to be familial and more severe in patients of Iraqi Jewish descent. On the other hand, asthma is less frequent in individuals with familial Mediterranean fever, an autoinflammatory disease prevalent in the Iraqi Jewish community and linked to mutations...
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