Table 2

Baseline data for familial Mediterranean fever patients

				Ethnicity/country of residence
	Patient number (%)	M/F	Children/adults	Caucasianwestern Europe	Turks in Turkey	Jews in Israel	Arabs^†/Jews/Turks in WE^*	Arabs^‡	Other
Genetically confirmed	304 (55)	146/158	249/55	80	118	22	19/6/16	24	19
Heterozygous	172 (31)	81/91	148/24	92	25	15	15/3/4	9	9
Clinically suspected	78 (14)	41/37	59/19	32	1	14	4/1/4	14	8
All	554	268/286	456/98	204	144	51	38/10/24	47	36

↵* resident in western Europe.
↵† including north Africans.
‡ including north Africans and Arabs living in north Africa and in Arabian countries.
F, female; M, male; WE, Western Europe.