Regulatory sequences of the PRNP gene influence susceptibility to sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 411, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 163-167

  Bratosiewicz Wasik, Jolanta ^a   Liberski, Pawel P ^b   Golanska, Ewa ^b   Jansen, Gerhard H ^c   Wasik, Tomasz J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Prion protein gene; Prion protein promoter; PRNP

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; METHIONINE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRIONS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; VALINE;

EID: 33751513985     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.08.001     Document Type: Article

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