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Clinical characteristics of familial and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Finland.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Jun 1993
Kovanen J
Abstract excerpt
The clinical features of 44 Finnish patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) were analyzed with special emphasis on the differences between the sporadic and familial forms. The 32 sporadic patients comprised all neuropathologically verified cases of CJD in 1974-89 in Finland. The 12 familial patients were members of the same pedigree where CJD has been linked with a mutation at codon 178 of the PRNP gene....
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