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Fatal familial insomnia and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: different prion proteins determined by a DNA polymorphism.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Mar 1994
Monari L, Chen S G, Brown P, Parchi P, Petersen R B, Mikol J, Gray F, Cortelli P, Montagna P, Ghetti B
Abstract excerpt
Fatal familial insomnia and a subtype of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, two clinically and pathologically distinct diseases, are linked to the same mutation at codon 178 (Asp-178-->Asn) but segregate with different genotypes determined by this mutation and the methionine-valine polymorphism at codon 129 of the prion protein gene. The abnormal isoforms of the prion protein in these two diseases were found to differ...
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