Familial Mediterranean fever gene mutations in the Southeastern region of Turkey and their phenotypical features

Amyloid

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-53

  Pasa, Semir ^a,b   Altintas, Abdullah ^a   Devecioglu, Bilge ^a   Cil, Timucin ^a   Danis, Ramazan ^a   Isi, Hilmi ^a   Bayan, Kadim ^a   Tuzun, Yekta ^a   Ecer, Sultan ^a   Batun, Sabri ^a   Ayyildiz, Orhan ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Familial Mediterranean fever; M694V; MEFV gene mutations

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMYLOIDOSIS; CHILD; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; TURKEY;

EID: 39049167771     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: 17442818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506120701815456     Document Type: Article

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