MEFV mutations in multiplex families with familial Mediterranean fever: Is a particular genotype necessary for amyloidosis?

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 430-434

  Tekin, Mustafa ^a,c   Yalçinkaya, Fatoş ^a   Çakar, Nilgün ^b   Akar, Nejat ^a   Misirlioǧlu, Müge ^a   Taştan, Hakki ^a   Tümer, Necmiye ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b I Neurosurgery Clinic   (Turkey)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloidosis; FMF; MEFV mutations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; PERITONITIS; PLEURISY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLCHICINE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PROTEINS;

EID: 0342859346     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2000.570605.x     Document Type: Article

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