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Clinical and molecular genetic study of a large German kindred with Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome.
Neurology - 1 Mar 1991
Brown P, Goldfarb L G, Brown W T, Goldgaber D, Rubenstein R, Kascsak R J, Guiroy D C, Piccardo P, Boellaard J W, Gajdusek D C
Abstract excerpt
We have verified, by full open reading frame sequencing, the presence of an amino-acid-altering mutation in codon 102 of the scrapie amyloid protein gene in three affected members of a large and well-documented German family with experimentally transmitted Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome. In addition, we identified the mutation by partial sequencing or DNA restriction enzyme analysis in three of 12...
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