Article
Genetics and biochemistry of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Libyan Jews.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Jan 1994
Gabizon R, Halimi M, Meiner Z
Abstract excerpt
A focus of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) among Jews from Libyan origin was identified in Israel 20 years ago. The incidence of the disease in this ethnic group is about 100 times more than in the worldwide population. The consumption of lightly cooked sheep brain has been invoked to explain the...
Topics
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Fibroblasts
- Humans
- Jews
- Leukocytes
- Libya
- Mutation
- Prions