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Basis of phenotypic variability in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Neurology - 12 Apr 1999
Tranchant C, Geranton L, Guiraud-Chaumeil C, Mohr M, Warter J M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To determine the correlation of clinical and pathologic features with prion protein (PrP) gene polymorphism at codon 129 and with biochemical characteristics of the protease-resistant PrP (PrPres) in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). METHODS: Clinical data acquisition, determination of the codon 129 genotype of the PrP gene, brain pathologic study, and immunoblot analysis of crude brain...
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