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Double mutations at codon 180 and codon 232 of the PRNP gene in an apparently sporadic case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Dec 1993
Hitoshi S, Nagura H, Yamanouchi H, Kitamoto T
Abstract excerpt
Several polymorphisms of the prion protein gene are associated with the occurrence of familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. We described a 84-year-old Japanese man with neuropathologically verified Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of apparently sporadic type. His clinical presentation was atypical in point of a very late age at onset and absence of periodic synchronous discharge on electroencephalography. The patient...
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