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Genetic risk factors for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Aug 2020
Jones Emma, Mead Simon
Abstract excerpt
Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders of mammals that share a central role for prion protein (PrP, gene PRNP) in their pathogenesis. Prions are infectious agents that account for the observed transmission of prion diseases between humans and animals in certain circumstances. The prion mechanism invokes a misfolded and multimeric assembly of PrP (a prion) that grows by templating of the...
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