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Genetics of prion diseases.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Jun 2013
Lloyd Sarah E, Mead Simon, Collinge John
Abstract excerpt
Prion diseases are transmissible, fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in animals and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in human. The prion protein gene (PRNP) is the major genetic determinant of susceptibility, however, several studies no...
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