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Letter to the Editor

The application of precision medicine in diagnosing familial Mediterranean fever

Shannon GlynnDepartment of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; View further author information
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Steven LipkinDepartment of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; View further author information
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Tuo ZhangCaryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, New York, NY, USA; ;Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York, NY, USA; View further author information
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Andrea SbonerCaryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, New York, NY, USA; ;Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; ;Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; View further author information
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Olivier ElementoCaryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, New York, NY, USA; View further author information
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Koen Van BesienDepartment of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; View further author information
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Himisha BeltranDepartment of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; ;Caryl and Israel Englander Institute for Precision Medicine, New York, NY, USA; ;Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 2091-2093 | Received 30 Nov 2018, Accepted 09 Jan 2019, Published online: 30 Jan 2019

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