Assessment of pyrin gene mutations in Turks with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)

Human Mutation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 456-460

  Chen, Xiaoguang ^a   Fischel Ghodsian, Nathan ^a,f   Cercek, Andrea ^a   Hamon, Melanie ^a   Ogur, Gonul ^b   Lotan, Rona ^d,e   Danon, Yehuda ^c   Shohat, Mordechai ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d Robin Medical Center   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF); Mutation and Turkish FMF patients; Pyrin gene

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY FAILURE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PERITONITIS; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ARMENIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENETIC SCREENING; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURKEY;

EID: 0031977279     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(1998)11:6<456::AID-HUMU6>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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