Genetic predisposition to iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

The Lancet

Volumn 337, Issue 8755, 1991, Pages 1441-1442

  Collinge, J ^a   Palmer, M S ^a   Dryden, A J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; GROWTH HORMONE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRPSC PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; VALINE; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0025859996     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0140-6736(91)93128-V     Document Type: Article

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