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[Genetic markers in four Chilean families with familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease].
Revista medica de Chile - 1 Sept 2006
Cartier R Luis, Fernández O Jorge, Ramírez V Eugenio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, in which a prion protein (PrP Sc) accumulates in the brain of affected individuals. Chile has a prevalence of CJD that is more than twice than in the rest of the world and has the highest rate of familial forms. These later forms are associated with the heterozygocity of codon 200 of PrP protein gene. AIM: To search...
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