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Unresponsiveness to colchicine therapy in patients with familial Mediterranean fever homozygous for the M694V mutation.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Jan 2010
Soylemezoglu Oguz, Arga Mustafa, Fidan Kibriya, Gonen Sevim, Emeksiz Hamdi Cihan, Hasanoglu Enver, Buyan Necla
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OBJECTIVE: More than 50 disease-associated mutations of the Mediterranean fever gene (MEFV) have been identified in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), some of which were shown to have different clinical, diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic implications. The aim of our study was to define the frequency of mutation type, genotype-phenotype correlation, and response to colchicine treatment in patients with FMF....
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