The association of MEFV gene mutations with the disease risk and severity of systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Abstract Background Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA) has many clinical features overlapping with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), which is caused by mutations in MEFV gene. And FMF patients were easily misdiagnosed as sJIA in China. So we speculate that MEFV is critical genetic backg...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-05-01
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Series: | Pediatric Rheumatology Online Journal |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12969-020-00427-8 |