Familial Mediterranean fever associated pyrin mutations in Greece

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 479-481

  Konstantopoulos, K ^a   Kanta, A ^a   Deltas, C ^c   Atamian, V ^c   Mavrogianni, D ^a   Tzioufas, A G ^a   Kollainis, I ^a   Ritis, K ^b   Moutsopoulos, H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PYRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MARENOSTRIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARAB; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRAIN; GREECE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; JEW; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; USSR; ARMENIA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

ARABS; ARMENIA; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GREECE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; JEWS; MALE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS;

EID: 0037405561     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.5.479     Document Type: Article

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