Decreased MEFV gene expression in rheumatoid arthritis patients
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Decreased MEFV gene expression in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a major cause of adult chronic inflammatory arthritis and an autoimmune disease of unknown etiology in which the inflammatory pathology involves T cell activation. Genetic mutations in the Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene, encoding pyrin, influence the severity of RA, but the underlying mechanisms are not completely understood. In this study, we investigated whether ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Genetics and Molecular Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1676-5680
DOI: 10.4238/2015.february.6.3