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PrP polymorphisms associated with natural scrapie discovered by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis.
Genomics - 1 Jan 1993
Laplanche J L, Chatelain J, Westaway D, Thomas S, Dussaucy M, Brugere-Picoux J, Launay J M
Abstract excerpt
Scrapie is a transmissible degenerative disease of the central nervous system occurring naturally in sheep and goats. An abnormal protease-resistant form of the host-encoded prion protein (PrP) accumulates in the brains of affected animals. As Sip, a gene controlling the incubation period of experimental and natural scrapie, is linked to the single-copy sheep PrP gene, we sought PrP coding sequence polymorphisms...
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