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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
PW02-028 - Association of novel NLRP3 mutations with CAPS phenotype in Turkish patients
Authors:
A Berdeli, S Nalbantoglu, D Tigli, I Demirel, M Atan, B Sozeri
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes (CAPS) are a group of rare, inherited, autoinflammatory diseases involved of Familial Cold Autoinflammatory Syndrome (FCAS),Muckle-Wells Syndrome (MWS) and Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease (NOMID) (also called Chronic Infantile Neurologic Cutaneous Articular, or CINCA, Syndrome. The responsible gene NLRP3 (nucleotide-binding domain, leucine-rich family [NLR], pyrin domain containing, produces cryopyrin protein which participates in inflammasome complexes leading to production of interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and autoinflammation. …