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Contributions of isolated Pacific populations to understanding neurodegenerative diseases.

Folia neuropathologica - 1 Jan 2009

Garruto Ralph M, Yanagihara Richard

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Isolated human populations have provided a natural experimental laboratory for the ongoing study of human disease. In the mid-20th century a number of high-incidence foci of neurodegenerative diseases were brought to medical attention including kuru, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and parkinsonism-dementia. These foci were discovered in Papua New Guinea, West New Guinea, the Kii Peninsula of Japan, and in the...

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