Discordant Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease in monozygotic twins

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9137, 1998, Pages 1358-1359

  Hamasaki, Shinji ^b   Shirabe, Susumu ^b   Tsuda, Ryouichi ^b   Yoshimura, Toshiro ^b   Nakamura, Tatsufumi ^b   Eguchi, Katsumi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GERSTMANN STRAUSSLER SCHEINKER SYNDROME; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLURRED SPEECH; TREMOR; ANIMAL; GENETICS; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PEDIGREE; PRION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TWINS;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER-SCHEINKER DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PRIONS; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032564088     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)60749-0     Document Type: Article

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