MEFV heterogeneity in Turkish Familial Mediterranean Fever patients

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 355-358

  Papadopoulos, Vasileios ^a,c   Mitroulis, Ioannis ^a   Giaglis, Stavros ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b Academy of Athens Biomedical Research Foundation   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

FMF; MEFV; Turkey

Indexed keywords

MEFV PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS;

CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; TURKEY;

EID: 77949269546     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-009-9779-9     Document Type: Article

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