A novel nonsynonymous variation of NLRP3 was identified in an Italian patient with Behçet syndrome using both bioinformatics and molecular methods. This variation was a thymine to guanine polymorphism responsible for the isoleucine to serine amino acid change at position 348. The novel variation was predicted to be a pathogenic allele.
Keywords: Behçet syndrome; NLRP3; bioinformatics; molecular genetics; new alleles.
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