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Screening of common and novel familial mediterranean fever mutations in south-east part of Turkey.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Jan 2014
Oztuzcu Serdar, Ulaşlı Mustafa, Ergun Sercan, Iğci Yusuf Ziya, Iğci Mehri, Bayraktar Recep, Nacarkahya Gülper, Tamer Ali, Cevik Muammer Ozgür, Cakmak Ecir Ali, Arslan Ahmet
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Familial mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive autoinflammatory disorder (MIM# 249100), particularly common in populations of Mediterranean extraction. MEFV gene, responsible for FMF, encoding pyrin has recently been mapped to chromosome 16p13.3. In the present study, 3,341 unrelated patients with the suspicion of FMF in south-east part of Turkey between the years 2009 and 2013 were enrolled and...
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