Familial Mediterranean fever in two Bedo
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Press, Joseph; Shinar, Yael; Langevitz, Pnina; Livneh, Avi; Pras, Mordehai; Busk
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease prevalent among non-Ashkenazi Jews, Armenians, Arabs, and Turks. The Bedouin are nomad Arab tribes residing in desert margins of the Middle East and Arabia. FMF is quite rare in Bedouins, and here we report on two Bedouin families