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MEFV mutations in Iranian Azeri Turkish patients with familial Mediterranean fever.
Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 2009
Bonyadi M, Esmaeili M, Jalali H, Somi M H, Ghaffari A, Rafeey M, Sakha K, Lotfalizadeh N, Pourhassan A, Khoshbaten M, Ardalan M R, Laghaeian N
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive autoinflammatory disorder with more than 60 disease-associated mutations in the responsible gene, MEFV. In the present study, we determined 15 MEFV mutations in Iranian Azeri Turkish FMF patients. Five hundred and twenty-four unrelated patients were tested for 15 known mutations in the MEFV gene using amplification refractory mutation system-polymerase...
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