Clinical and Genetic Analysis of 22 Japanese Patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever: An Examination of MEFV and 10 Other Genes Related to Autoinflammatory Syndromes.

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Objective Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is the most frequent autoinflammatory syndrome, and its frequency is reported to be increasing in Japan. We studied the clinical features and genetic background of patients with FMF in our hospital. Methods We analyzed the clinical features and genomic variants of MEFV, as well as 10 genes related to other autoinflammatory syndromes, in 22 Japanese patients with FMF. A...

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• Asian People
• Diagnostic Tests, Routine
• DNA Mutational Analysis
• Familial Mediterranean Fever
• Infant