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      Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) mutations occur frequently in the Greek-Cypriot population of Cyprus 

      Constantinou-Deltas, Constantinos D.; Mean, R.; Rossou, Elena; Costi, Constantina Eleni; Koupepidou, P.; Hadjiyanni, I.; Koptides, Michael; Hadjiroussos, V.; Petrou, P.; Pierides, Alkis M.; Lamnissou, Klea; Koptides, M. (2002)
      Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease of high prevalence within Mediterranean countries and particularly common in four ethnic populations: Arabs, non-Ashkenazi Jews, Armenians, and Turks. ...
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      Loss of heterozygosity in polycystic kidney disease with a missense mutation in the repeated region of PKD1 

      Koptides, M.; Constantinides, R.; Kyriakides, George K.; Hadjigavriel, Michael; Patsalis, Philippos C.; Pierides, A.; Deltas, Constantinos (1998)
      Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is a molecular phenomenon that denotes the loss of one of the two alleles at a specific locus. It is frequently associated with tumour suppressor genes in various cancers and also with ...