rs28940579, MEFV

N. diseases: 13
Disease: Coronary heart disease ×
Source: ALL
Disease Risk Allele Score vda Association Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Coronary heart disease
CUI: C0010068
Disease: Coronary heart disease
0.010 GeneticVariation BEFREE To evaluate whether inflammatory alleles of pyrin, the gene responsible for familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) may play an opposite role in CHD and in longevity, we examined three FMF-associated mutations, M694V (A2080G), M694I (G2082A), and V726A (T2177C), encoded by the FMF gene (MEFV) in 121 patients affected by acute myocardial infarction (AMI), in 68 centenarians, and in 196 age-matched controls from Sicily. 16387839 2006