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1Novel MEFV transcripts in Familial Mediterranean fever patients and controls.
BMC medical genetics - 9 Jun 2010
Medlej-Hashim Myrna, Nehme Nancy, Chouery Eliane, Jalkh Nadine, Megarbane André
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial Mediterranean fever is a recessive autoinflammatory disease frequently encountered in Armenians, Jews, Arabs and Turks. The MEFV gene is responsible for the disease. It encodes a protein called pyrin/marenostrin involved in the innate immune system. A large number of clinically diagnosed FMF patients carry only one MEFV mutation. This study aims at studying the MEFV gene splicing pattern in...
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