Yes, it is a hereditary disease that is transmitted in mode autosomal dominant : only inherits one altered copy of the gene from one parent to manifest the disease.
There are also cases, NOVOS, without having any case in the family previously.
The syndrome refers to a complex group of genetic disease inflammatory: it develops in three different ways FCAS, Muckle-Wells and Cinca-Nomid, the spectrum of the severity of each one of them goes in the order exposed.