PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Koji Shinozaki AU - Kazunaga Agematsu AU - Kozo Yasui AU - Haruo Nagumo AU - Hajime Naitoh AU - Kuniaki Naganuma AU - Atsushi Komiyama TI - Familial Mediterranean fever in 2 Japanese families. DP - 2002 Jun 01 TA - The Journal of Rheumatology PG - 1324--1325 VI - 29 IP - 6 4099 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/29/6/1324.short 4100 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/29/6/1324.full SO - J Rheumatol2002 Jun 01; 29 AB - We describe 3 Japanese patients in 2 families with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) as determined by gene analysis. FMF is an ethnically related, genetic disease, occurring commonly in some Mediterranean populations. The FMF gene (MEFV) mutation found in our patients is M694I. The patients may be remote from East Asian extraction.