One prominent example of these disorders is the cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome (CAPS), which comprise a spectrum of disorders caused by gain-of-function mutations in the NLRP3 gene (also referred to cold-induced autoinflammatory syndrome 1, or CIAS1 gene) on chromosome 1q44, which encodes cryopyrin. Here, NLRP3 is linked to cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome.