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Fatal familial insomnia, a prion disease with a mutation at codon 178 of the prion protein gene.
The New England journal of medicine - 13 Feb 1992
Medori R, Tritschler H J, LeBlanc A, Villare F, Manetto V, Chen H Y, Xue R, Leal S, Montagna P, Cortelli P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We previously described two members of a family affected by an apparently genetically determined fatal disease characterized clinically by progressive insomnia, dysautonomia, and motor signs and characterized pathologically by severe atrophy of the anterior ventral and mediodorsal thalamic nuclei. Five other family members who died of this disease, which we termed "fatal familial insomnia," had...
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