Published: 20 June 2023
Author(s): Nabiha Sbeih, Rim Bourguiba, Nadia Hoyeau-Idrissi, Jean-Marie Launay, Jacques Callebert, Danielle Canioni, Harry Sokol, Véronique Hentgen, Gilles Grateau, Olivier Hermine, Sophie Georgin-Lavialle
Issue: October 2023
Section: Original article

Autoinflammatory diseases (AID) are defined according to the International Society of Auto-Inflammatory Diseases as abnormal activation of the innate immunity in the absence of infection or autoimmunity [1]. Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), associated with Pyrine inflammasome mutation, was the first monogenic AID described in 1997 [2,3]. FMF is the most frequent monogenic AID worldwide; patients display mutations in MEFV gene, which codes for the Pyrin protein [2,3]. Pyrin is part of a macromolecular complex called inflammasome and is expressed in innate immune cells, mainly monocytes and neutrophils [4,5].

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