Male sex coupled with articular manifestations cause a 4-fold increase in susceptibility to amyloidosis in patients with familial Mediterranean fever homozygous for the M694V-MEFV mutation.
Journal article published in 2003 by
R. Gershoni-Baruch,
R. Brik,
M. Lidar,
Marwan Shinawi 
,
A. Livneh
,
A. Livneh
