TY - JOUR T1 - Familial Mediterranean fever in 2 Japanese families. JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 1324 LP - 1325 VL - 29 IS - 6 AU - Koji Shinozaki AU - Kazunaga Agematsu AU - Kozo Yasui AU - Haruo Nagumo AU - Hajime Naitoh AU - Kuniaki Naganuma AU - Atsushi Komiyama Y1 - 2002/06/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/29/6/1324.abstract N2 - 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. ER -