Increased prevalence of M694V in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: additional evidence for a link with familial mediterranean fever.


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Akkoc N., SARI İ., Akar S., Binicier O., Thomas M. G., Weale M. E., ...More

Arthritis and rheumatism, vol.62, no.10, pp.3059-63, 2010 (SCI-Expanded)

Abstract

Objective. To assess whether there is a statistically significant difference in the frequency of common MEFV allele variants in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) as compared with control patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and with healthy control subjects.