The hereditary periodic fever syndromes: Molecular analysis of a new family of inflammatory diseases

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1581-1588

  Centola, Michael ^a   Aksentijevich, Ivona ^a   Kastner, Daniel L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMOSOME 12P; CHROMOSOME 16P; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEVER; GENE MAPPING; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HYPERIMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; INFLAMMATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; REVIEW; SEROSA; SYNOVITIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 12; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEVER; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNDROME;

EID: 0031693188     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.10.1581     Document Type: Review

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