Article
A mutation in the prion protein gene in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Jewish patients of Libyan, Greek, and Tunisian origin.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Jan 1991
Korczyn A D, Chapman J, Goldfarb L G, Brown P, Gajdusek D C
Abstract excerpt
A modified host protein encoded by the gene specifying the scrapie amyloid precursor is critically involved in the pathogenesis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker's syndrome, and Kuru. A mutation in the open reading frame of this gene was recently described in a cluster of patients with CJD in Slovakia. This mutation at codon 200...
Topics
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Female
- Greece
- Humans
- Jews
- Libya
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- PrPSc Proteins
- Prions
- Tunisia