Article
Japanese Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients exhibiting high incidence of the E200K PRNP mutation and located in the basin of a river.
Neurological research - 1 Dec 1998
Miyakawa T, Inoue K, Iseki E, Kawanishi C, Sugiyama N, Onishi H, Yamada Y, Suzuki K, Iwabuchi K, Kosaka K
Abstract excerpt
Seven cases with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) located in the basin of the Fuji river (Fuji area) in Japan were examined genetically and clinicopathologically. The onset of the disease was between 1989 and 1995. All cases were from different families, although 3 cases were family members of pre...
Topics
- Aged
- Asian People
- Cerebral Cortex
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Family Health
- Female
- Humans
- Incidence
- Japan
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Pedigree
- Prions