ReviewBioMed research international2013
Clinical genetic testing of periodic fever syndromes.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatitis, Pharyngitis, and Cervical Adenitis (PFAPA) Syndrome: An Updated Review with Current Insights into Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Strategies.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Clinical, immunological characterisation and treatment response of patients with syndrome of undifferentiated recurrent fever in Chinese children and adolescents: a single-centre cohort study.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Complexity in unclassified auto-inflammatory disease: a case report illustrating the potential for disease arising from the allelic burden of multiple variants.Pediatric rheumatology online journal · 2019Article
- Fever tree revisited: From malaria to autoinflammatory diseases.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2015Review
- Alendronate, a double-edged sword acting in the mevalonate pathway.Molecular medicine reports · 2015Article
- GRID2 a novel gene possibly associated with mevalonate kinase deficiency.Rheumatology international · 2015Article
- Clinical features and genetic background of the periodic Fever syndrome with aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis: a single center longitudinal study of 81 patients.Mediators of inflammation · 2015Article
- SPAG7 is a candidate gene for the periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenopathy (PFAPA) syndrome.Genes and immunityArticle
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Abstract
Periodic fever syndromes (PFSs) are a wide group of autoinflammatory diseases. Due to some clinical overlap between different PFSs, differential diagnosis can be a difficult challenge. Nowadays, there are no universally agreed recommendations for most PFSs, and near half of patients may remain without a genetic diagnosis even after performing multiple-gene analyses. Molecular analysis of periodic fevers' causative genes can improve patient quality of life by providing early and accurate diagnosis and allowing the administration of appropriate treatment. In this paper we focus our discussion on effective usefulness of genetic diagnosis of PFSs. The aim of this paper is to establish how much can the diagnostic system improve, in order to increase the success of PFS diagnosis. The mayor expectation in the near future will be addressed to the so-called next generation sequencing approach. Although the application of bioinformatics to high-throughput genetic analysis could allow the identification of complex genotypes, the complexity of this definition will hardly result in a clear contribution for the physician. In our opinion, however, to obtain the best from this new development a rule should always be kept well in mind: use genetics only to answer specific clinical questions.
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