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A case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with a Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker phenotype but no alterations in the PRNP gene.
Acta neuropathologica - 1 Oct 1998
Liberski P P, Barcikowska M, Cervenakova L, Bratosiewicz J, Marczewska M, Brown P, Gajdusek D C
Abstract excerpt
We report here an unusual sporadic case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) characterized by an abundance of prion protein (PrP)-immunopositive kuru and multicentric but not florid plaques. Molecular genetic analysis of the PRNP open reading frame region spanning codons 8-221 was performed. Neither deletion nor insertion mutations were detected in the repeat area of the PRNP. No pathogenic mutation was found in...
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