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MEFV gene 3'-UTR Alu repeat polymorphisms in patients with familial Mediterranean fever.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Ustek D, Ekmekçi C, Oku B, Coşan F, Cakiris A, Abaci N, Celik S, Kamali S, Hatemi G, Kasapçopur O, Ozdoğan H, Gül A
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), an autosomal recessively inherited autoinflammatory disorder, is caused by missense mutations in the pyrin-encoding MEFV gene. The MEFV mutations can be detected in the majority of FMF patients, but there is an important proportion of patients with the FMF phenotype who carry a single or no coding region mutation. This study aimed to investigate the promoter region...
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