Genetics of human prion disease.

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Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders in which an abnormal isoform of prion protein (PrPSc) accumulates in brain. Prion disease is either inherited as an autosomal dominant disorder with very high penetrance, sporadic, where no epidemiological association with other human or animal prion diseases can be demonstrated or acquired, where disease results from contamination with PrPSc from another case...

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