New topics in familial prion diseases

Seminars in Virology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 181-187

  Parchi, Piero ^a   Petersen, Robert B ^a   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain mapping; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; DNA polymorphism; Fatal familial insomnia; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEINASE;

ALLELE; BRAIN REGION; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASE; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0029974186     PISSN: 10445773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/smvy.1996.0023     Document Type: Review

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