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Genotype-phenotype analysis in inherited prion disease with eight octapeptide repeat insertional mutation.
Prion - 1 Jan 2000
Paucar Martin, Xiang Fengqing, Moore Richard, Walker Ruth, Winnberg Elisabeth, Svenningsson Per
Abstract excerpt
A minority of inherited prion diseases (IPD) are caused by four to 12 extra octapeptide repeat insertions (OPRI) in the prion protein gene (PRNP). Only four families affected by IPD with 8-OPRI have been reported, one of them was a three-generation Swedish kindred in which four of seven affected subjects had chorea which was initially attributed to Huntington's disease (HD). Following the exclusion of HD, this...
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