[Mevalonate kinase deficiency].

Abstract excerpt

MEVALONATE KINASE DEFICIENCY. Mevalonate kinase deficiency is a rare, autosomal recessive, auto- inflammatory disease, linked to mutations in the gene MVK, resulting in the activation of pyrin inflammasome and hypersecretion of interleukin-1β (IL-1β). The clinical spectrum realizes a continuum which extends from the mild phenotype of the partial MVK deficiency (hyperimmunoglobulinemia D) resulting in periodic...

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