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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 in the brain of an abnormal isoform (PrPSc) of the cellular prion protein (PrPc). Progress has been made in...
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