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Muckle-Wells syndrome in an Indian family associated with NLRP3 mutation.
Journal of postgraduate medicine - 1 Jan 2000
Abdulla M C, Alungal J, Hawkins P N, Mohammed S
Abstract excerpt
Muckle-Wells syndrome (MWS) is a rare autosomal dominant disease that belongs to a group of hereditary periodic fever syndromes. It is part of the wider spectrum of the cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS) which has only rarely been described in non-Caucasian individuals. It is characterized by recurrent self-limiting episodes of fever, urticaria, arthralgia, myalgia and conjunctivitis from childhood....
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