Article
Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Codon 200 prion disease in Libyan Jews.
Medicine - 1 Jul 1997
Meiner Z, Gabizon R, Prusiner S B
Abstract excerpt
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is the most prevalent of the human prion diseases, a group of fatal neurodegenerative disorders afflicting both humans and animals. The unique characteristic of these diseases, whether sporadic, dominantly inherited, or acquired by transmission, is the accumulation...
Topics
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Aged
- Alleles
- Apolipoproteins E
- Codon
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- Female
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Incidence
- Jews
- Libya
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Pedigree
- Point Mutation