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Codon 219 Lys allele of PRNP is not found in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jun 1998
Shibuya S, Higuchi J, Shin R W, Tateishi J, Kitamoto T
Abstract excerpt
The polymorphism at codon 219 of the prion protein gene (PRNP) was found in the general Japanese population with 6% allele frequency. Herein, we examined 85 cases of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) for the codon 219 polymorphism. The codon 219Glu/Lys heterozygous polymorphism was not found in these CJD cases. In addition, we examined 43 patients with dementia of non-CJD origin, and 4 were found to have...
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