Two Chinese patients of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease with a S97N mutation in PRNP gene.

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Worldwide, 10-15% human prion disease are genetic and inherited, due to the special mutations or insertions in PRNP gene. Herein, we reported two Chinese patients with rapidly progressive dementia who were referred to the national Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) surveillance as suspected CJD. Those two patients displayed sporadic CJD (sCJD)-like clinical phenotype, e.g. rapidly progressive dementia, visional and...

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