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Identification of a homozygous PSTPIP1 mutation in a patient with a PAPA-like syndrome responding to canakinumab treatment.
JAMA dermatology - 1 Feb 2013
Geusau Alexandra, Mothes-Luksch Nadine, Nahavandi Hesam, Pickl Winfried F, Wise Carol A, Pourpak Zahra, Ponweiser Elisabeth, Eckhart Leopold, Sunder-Plassmann Raute
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BACKGROUND: Pyogenic sterile arthritis, pyoderma gangrenosum, and acne (PAPA) syndrome (OMIM 604416) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited autoinflammatory syndrome characterized by pyogenic sterile arthritis and less frequently accompanied by pyoderma gangrenosum and acne. It is associated with dominant missense mutations in the proline-serine-threonine phosphatase-interacting protein 1 gene (PSTPIP1) located...
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