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Familial Mediterranean fever, review of the literature.
Clinical rheumatology - 1 Aug 2017
Alghamdi Mansour
Abstract excerpt
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common monogenic periodic fever syndrome and characterized by recurrent episodes of fever, serositis, arthritis, dermal manifestations, and long-term renal complications. The MEFV gene was described in 1997 as the gene responsible for FMF and is inherited in autosomal recessive manner. It encodes mutated protein pyrin, an important player in the innate immune system...
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