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Is the IL-6 -174G/C Gene Polymorphism Related to the Disease Severity Score in Turkish Children with Familial Mediterranean Fever?
Biochemical genetics - 1 Dec 2016
Özer Samet, Yilmaz Resul, Sonmezgoz Ergün, Ünuvar Şeyma, Ates Ömer
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessively inherited disease characterized by recurrent self-limited attacks of fever accompanied by aseptic inflammation of serosal spaces, joints and skin, peritonitis, pleuritis, and arthritis. Clinical features differ according to genetics variants. The aim of this study was to identify relationship between IL-6 -174G/C gene polymorphisms and clinical...
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