<i>MEFV</i> analysis is of particularly weak diagnostic value for recurrent fevers in Western European Caucasian patients

Abstract

FMF-like syndromes in western European Caucasian populations cannot be explained by MEFV mutations. These results should be helpful in avoiding laborious and costly MEFV molecular analyses that, at the population level, seem to be of poor diagnostic value in the case of western European Caucasian patients, and rather should prompt a search for other causes in those patients.