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No evidence for prion protein gene locus multiplication in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Neuroscience letters - 12 Mar 2010
Collins Steven J, Schuur Maaike, Boyd Alison, Lewis Victoria, Klug Genevieve M, McGlade Amelia, van Oosterhout Andrew, Breedveld Guido, Oostra Ben A, Masters Colin, Van Duijn Cornelia M
Abstract excerpt
Precedent of causative multiplication of key gene loci exists in familial forms of both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is often clinically indistinguishable from sporadic disease and inexplicably, a negative family history of a similar disorder occur...
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