Japanese Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients exhibiting high incidence of the E200k PRNP mutation and located in the basin of a river

Neurological Research

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 684-688

  Miyakawa, Tomohiro ^a   Inoue, Ken ^a   Iseki, Eizo ^a   Kawanishi, Chiaki ^a   Sugiyama, Naoya ^a   Onishi, Hideki ^a   Yamada, Yoshiteru ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Iwabuchi, Kiyoshi ^b   Kosaka, Kenji ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA REHABILITATION CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cluster; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; E200K mutation; Japan; PRNP

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PENETRANCE;

EID: 17344378909     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01616412.1998.11740584     Document Type: Article

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