Codon 219 Lys allele of PRNP is not found in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 826-828

  Shibuya, Satoshi ^a   Higuchi, Jun ^a   Shin, Ryong Woon ^a   Tateishi, Jun ^b   Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALANINE; ALLELES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LYSINE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS;

EID: 0031842845     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410430618     Document Type: Article

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