Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease.

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Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) is a slowly progressive hereditary autosomal dominant disease (OMIM: 137440) and the first human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in which a mutation in a gene encoding for prion protein (PrP) was discovered. The first "H" family had been known by the Viennese neuropsychiatrists since the XXth century and was reported by Gerstmann, Sträussler and Scheinker in...

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