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Demographic, clinical and mutational characteristics of Turkish familial Mediterranean fever patients: results of a single center in Central Anatolia.
Rheumatology international - 1 May 2010
Ureten Kemal, Gönülalan Gülsüm, Akbal Erdem, Güneş Fahri, Akyürek Omer, Ozbek Mustafa, Oztürk M Akif
Abstract excerpt
Clinical and genetic findings of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) may be variable in different populations. Environmental factors may also affect phenotypic features of FMF. In this study, we investigated demographic, clinical and mutational features of FMF patients who were treated in a single reference hospital in Turkey. Two hundred and sixty patients (169 females, 91 males, mean age 30.44 +/- 10.29 years)...
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