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Diagnosis of Familial Mediterranean Fever by a Molecular Genetics Method
1 Oct 1998
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BACKGROUND: Familial Mediterranean fever is a recessively inherited disorder characterized by episodes of fever with abdominal pain, pleurisy, or arthritis. The familial Mediterranean fever gene, designated MEFV, was recently cloned, and at least three missense mutations (M6801, M694V, and V726A) that account for a large percentage of patients with this disease were identified. OBJECTIVE: To establish a...
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