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Inherited Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a Dutch patient with a novel five octapeptide repeat insertion and unusual cerebellar morphology.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry - 1 Dec 2009
Jansen C, van Swieten J C, Capellari S, Strammiello R, Parchi P, Rozemuller A J M
Abstract excerpt
An atypical case of inherited Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is described in a 35-year-old Dutch woman, homozygous for methionine at codon 129 of the prion protein gene (PRNP). The clinical phenotype was characterised by slowly progressive cognitive decline and parkinsonism. Neuropathological findings consisted of scanty spongiosis and only faint to absent immunohistochemical staining for the abnormal prion...
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