Article
[Fatal familial insomnia: clinical, laboratory and pathological features].
Revista de neurologia - 1 Jan 2000
Montagna P
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a hereditary disease caused by prions and characterized by mutations in the gene of the prion protein. Its clinical, neuropathological and biomolecular properties make this a distinctive and worrying disorder. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We studied the clinical and laboratory findings of 14 patients belonging to three Italian and two French families. The genetic analysis...
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