When Sporadic Disease Is Not Sporadic: The Potential for Genetic Etiology

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 213-216

  Goldman, Jill S ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a   Safar, Jiri ^a,b   De Tourreil, Sunita ^a   Martindale, Jennifer L ^a   Prusiner, Stanley B ^a,b   Geschwind, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; PRESENILIN 1; PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; MALE; ONSET AGE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PRESENILIN-1; PRIONS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

EID: 1042268035     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.61.2.213     Document Type: Article

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