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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
P03-023 – Autoinflammatory diseases database in Japan
Authors:
T Kawai, R Nishikomori, M Awaya, K Nakagawa, K Izawa, T Yasumi, O Ohara, T Heike
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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In recent years, responsible genes for autoinflammatory diseases have been increasingly known and clinical phenotype-genotype correlations of these diseases have been explored through international clinical databases such as EUROFEVER project. However, clinical features of genetic disorders could be affected by countries and races of the patients. Actually, patients with Familial Mediterranean fever in Japan show the different distribution of both clinical features and MEFV mutations. Up to now, however, no nationwide research of autoinflammatory diseases with standardized contents which can integrate with data of other international studies has been performed in Japan. …
