Human Molecular Genetics, Vol 7, 1317-1325, Copyright © 1998 by Oxford University Press
A Bernot, C da Silva, JL Petit, C Cruaud, C Caloustian, V Castet, M Ahmed-Arab, C Dross, M Dupont, D Cattan, N Smaoui, C Dode, C Pecheux, B Nedelec, J Medaxian, M Rozenbaum, I Rosner, M Delpech, G Grateau, J Demaille, J Weissenbach and I Touitou
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disorder
characterized by recurring attacks of fever and serositis. It affects
primarily North African Jews, Armenians, Turks and Arabs, in which a
founder effect has been demonstrated. The marenostrin-pyrin-encoding gene
has been proposed as a candidate gene for the disease ( MEFV ), on the
basis of the identification of putative mutations clustered in exon 10
(M680V, M694I, M694V and V726A), each segregating with one ancestral
haplotype. In a search for additional MEFV mutations in 120 apparently
non-founder FMF chromosomes, we observed eight novel mutations in exon 2
(E148Q, E167D and T267I), exon 5 (F479L) and exon 10 (I692del K695R, A744S
and R761H). Except for E148Q and K695R, all mutations were found in a
single chromosome. Mutation E148Q was found in all ethnic groups studied
and in association with a novel ancestral haplotype in non- Ashkenazi Jews
(S2). Altogether, these new findings definitively establish the
marenostrin/pyrin-encoding gene as the MEFV locus.
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Non-founder mutations in the MEFV gene establish this gene as the cause of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF)
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