Common mediterranean fever gene mutations in the Azeri Turkish population of Iran

Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 149-151

  Bonyadi, Mortaza ^a,b   Esmaeili, Mohsen ^a,b   Karimi, Abbas ^a,b   Dastgiri, Saeed ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION RATE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

COHORT STUDIES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MUTATION; TURKEY;

EID: 76949087855     PISSN: 19450265     EISSN: 19450257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gtmb.2009.0087     Document Type: Article

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