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Sporadic and familial CJD: classification and characterisation.
British medical bulletin - 1 Jan 2003
Gambetti Pierluigi, Kong Qingzhong, Zou Wenquan, Parchi Piero, Chen Shu G
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Prion diseases are unique transmissible neurodegenerative diseases that have diverse phenotypes and can be familial, sporadic, or acquired by infection. Recent findings indicate that the PrP genotype and the PrP(Sc) type have a major influence on the disease phenotype in both sporadic and familial human prion diseases. This review attempts to classify and characterise sporadic and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
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