Fatal familial insomnia with a mutation at codon 178 of the priori protein gene: First report from Japan

Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1313-1316

  Nagayama, Masao ^a   Shinohara, Yukito ^a   Furukawa, Hisako ^b   Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DELIRIUM; DYSAUTONOMIA; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSOMNIA; JAPAN; MALE; MYOCLONUS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029961971     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.47.5.1313     Document Type: Article

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