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Age at Death of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in subsequent family generation carrying the E200K mutation of the prion protein gene.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Pocchiari Maurizio, Poleggi Anna, Puopolo Maria, D'Alessandro Marco, Tiple Dorina, Ladogana Anna
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The E200K mutation of the prion protein gene (PRNP) is the most frequent amino acid substitution in genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and is the only one responsible for the appearance of clustered cases in the world. In the Israel and Slovakian clusters, age of disease onset was redu...
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