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Genetic and environmental factors determining the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Libyan Jews.

Neuroepidemiology - 1 Jan 1991

Chapman J, Korczyn A D

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The cluster of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) among Jews of Libyan origin is one of the largest in the world. A number of hypotheses have been proposed to account for this cluster, the most prevalent but unsubstantiated hypothesis being that a transmissible agent was ingested in the form of scrapie-infected sheep brains. It has, however, been shown that a modified host protein encoded by the gene specifying the...

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Cluster Analysis
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
DNA
Humans
Jews
Libya
Mutation
Polymerase Chain Reaction

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PMID: 1798423
DOI: 10.1159/000110276

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