Does the prion protein gene 129 codon polymorphism influence sleep? Evidence from a fatal familial insomnia kindred

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1948-1953

  Plazzi, Giuseppe ^a   Montagna, Pasquale ^a   Beelke, Manolo ^b   Nobili, Lino ^b   De Carli, Fabrizio ^c   Cortelli, Pietro ^a   Vandi, Stefano ^a   Avoni, Patrizia ^a   Tinuper, Paolo ^a   Gambetti, Pierluigi ^d   Lugaresi, Elio ^a   Ferrillo, Franco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Prion; PRNP C129 polymorphism; Sleep; Sleep electroencephalographic spectral analysis

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIGREE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CODON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INSOMNIA, FATAL FAMILIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP;

EID: 0036900408     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00308-5     Document Type: Article

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