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Variability in prion protein genotypes by spatial unit to inform susceptibility to chronic wasting disease.
Prion - 1 Dec 2022
Fameli Alberto F, Edson Jessie, Banfield Jeremiah E, Rosenberry Christopher S, Walter W David
Abstract excerpt
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal encephalopathy affecting North American cervids. Certain alleles in a host's prion protein gene are responsible for reduced susceptibility to CWD. We assessed for the first time variability in the prion protein gene of elk (Cervus canadensis) present in Pennsylvania, United States of America, a reintroduced population for which CWD cases have never been reported. We...
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