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Association of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with homozygous genotypes at PRNP codons 129 and 219 in the Korean population.
Neurogenetics - 1 Dec 2005
Jeong Byung-Hoon, Lee Kyung-Hee, Kim Nam-Ho, Jin Jae-Kwang, Kim Jae-Il, Carp Richard I, Kim Yong-Sun
Abstract excerpt
Human prion protein gene (PRNP) is considered an important gene in determining the incidence of human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases. Polymorphisms of PRNP at codon 129 in Europeans and codon 219 in Japanese may play an important role in the susceptibility to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD); data regarding codon 129 in the Japanese population have led to divergent...
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