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Type 1 protease resistant prion protein and valine homozygosity at codon 129 of PRNP identify a subtype of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Nov 1999
Worrall B B, Herman S T, Capellari S, Lynch T, Chin S, Gambetti P, Parchi P
Abstract excerpt
A man was studied with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) who had serial cortical syndromes evolving over 15 months without significant ataxia, prominent myoclonus, or periodic complexes on EEG examinations. This clinical phenotype correlated with a predominantly cortical and striatal distribution of lesions and accumulation of protease resistant prion protein with relative sparing of the brainstem or...
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