Familial Mediterranean fever and the bubonic plague (IMAGE)

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Familial Mediterranean fever and the bubonic plague

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An animation depicting specific genomic variants that cause a disease called familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) may also confer increased resilience to the plague.

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Credit: Ernesto Del Aguila III, NHGRI.

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