Article
The hereditary periodic fever syndromes: molecular analysis of a new family of inflammatory diseases.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Jan 1998
Centola M, Aksentijevich I, Kastner D L
Abstract excerpt
The hereditary periodic fever syndromes are a group of Mendelian disorders characterized by episodic fever and serosal or synovial inflammation. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and the hyperimmunoglobulinemia D and periodic fever syndrome are both recessively inherited, while three dominantly...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Fever
- Gene Expression
- Genetic Linkage
- Humans
- Inflammation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Proteins
- Pyrin
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Syndrome