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Genotype patterns and characteristics of PRNP in the Korean population.
Prion - 1 Jan 2000
Moe Lee Sol, Ran Ju Young, Choi Bo-Yeong, Wook Hyeon Jae, Sun Park Jun, Kyeong Kim Chi, Yeon Kim Su
Abstract excerpt
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), included in the human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), is widely known to be caused by an abnormal accumulation of misfolding prion protein in the brain. Human prion protein gene (PRNP) is mapped in chromosome 20p13 and many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in PRNP have been discovered. However, the functionality of SNPs in PRNP is yet unclear, though several...
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