Article
[Genetic diagnosis of periodic disease].
La Revue de medecine interne - 1 Jul 1998
Touitou I
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Periodic disease is a hereditary disorder. Until recently its diagnosis was essentially based on clinical criteria. When the clinical picture was incomplete or atypical, it often required elimination of other diagnoses which sometimes involved extensive and useless investigations. D...
Topics
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Genetic Markers
- Humans
- Mutation
- Prognosis
- Proteins
- Pyrin