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Identification in Israel of 2 Jewish Creutzfeld-Jakob disease patients with a 178 mutation at their PrP gene.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Mar 1998
Rosenmann H, Vardi J, Finkelstein Y, Chapman J, Gabizon R
Abstract excerpt
Among the dozen known mutations in the PrP gene which segregate with the inherited prion diseases, only 2 mutations have been described in Israel so far: the codon 200 mutation in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) affected Libyan Jews, and the codon 102 mutation in 1 Jewish Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker (GSS) affected pedigree of German origin. We report here 2 unrelated CJD178 cases affected by a unique...
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