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DOID:2987 - familial Mediterranean fever

Disease Ontology Definition:An autoinflammatory disease characterized by recurrent episodes of fever and acute inflammation of the membranes lining the abdomen, joints and lungs; that has_material_basis_in mutations in the MEFV gene, which encodes the protein pyrin.

Synonyms: benign paroxysmal peritonitis, FMF

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Other Model Organisms: Alliance, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD

Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee
Parent(s): autoimmune disease (is_a), autoinflammatory disease (is_a), autosomal genetic disease (is_a)