Allelic variation of apolipoprotein E in Japanese sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients.

doi:10.1016/0304-3940(95)11366-5

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Allelic variation of apolipoprotein E in Japanese sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients.

Neuroscience letters - 10 Mar 1995

Nakagawa Y, Kitamoto T, Furukawa H, Ogomori K, Tateishi J

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We analyzed apolipoprotein E (apo E) genotypes in 53 Japanese sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) patients and 100 normal controls using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) methods. The apo E allelic frequencies in Japanese sporadic CJD pat...

Topics

Alleles
Apolipoproteins E
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
Electrophoresis
Genotype
Humans
Japan
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Prevalence

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