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Small de novo duplication in the repeat region of the TATA-box-binding protein gene manifest with a phenotype similar to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Clinical genetics - 1 Dec 2004
Shatunov A, Fridman E A, Pagan F I, Leib J, Singleton A, Hallett M, Goldfarb L G
Abstract excerpt
A 20-year-old North American patient developed rapidly progressive cognitive decline and pronounced ataxia, a phenotype compatible with prion disease. No structural changes were found in the PRNP gene, which excludes genetic prion disease, but the patient's PRNP codon 129 Met/Met genotype is known to predispose to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Further studies identified an expanded allele with 55...
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