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Elk with a long incubation prion disease phenotype have a unique PrPd profile.
Neuroreport - 3 Dec 2007
O'Rourke Katherine I, Spraker Terry R, Zhuang Dongyue, Greenlee Justin J, Gidlewski Thomas E, Hamir Amir N
Abstract excerpt
The transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) invariably result in fatal neurodegeneration and accumulation of PrP, an abnormal form of the host prion protein PrP, encoded by the PRNP gene. A naturally occurring polymorphism (methionine/valine) at PRNP codon 129 is associated with variation in relative disease susceptibility, incubation time, clinical presentation, neuropathology, and/or PrP biochemical...
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