On the track of the white tiger: pigmentation could be linked to prion diseases, and location explains why.

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Certain rodent pigmentation mutants spontaneously develop brain spongiform changes. It is hypothesized that animals, and possibly humans, characterized by certain pigmentation gene variants could be more susceptible to prion diseases, which are characterized by this type of neuropathology. This hypothesis could be explained by the common location of the prion protein and several important pigmentation genes in...

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