[Clinical features of familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the E200K mutation in Spain].

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INTRODUCTION: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is an infrequent pathology affecting the central nervous system (about 1/1,000000) that has a subacute progression and, for the time being, a fatal prognosis. The familial forms account for between 5-10% of cases and one of the most frequent is that produced by the E200K mutation of prion protein gene (PRNP), which has not been reported in Spanish families although...

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