Prevalence of known mutations and a novel missense mutation (M694K) in the MEFV gene in a population from the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey

Gene

Volumn 511, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 371-374

  Yesilada, Elif ^a   Taskapan, Hulya ^a   Gulbay, Gonca ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF); MEFV gene; Mutation; Pyrin

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FAMILY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDITERRANEAN FEVER GENE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONSENSE MUTATION; PHYSICIAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY;

EID: 84868211852     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2012.09.073     Document Type: Article

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