Familial prion disease in a Hungarian family with a novel 144-base pair insertion in the prion protein gene

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-323

  Kovacs T ^a   Beck, J A ^b   Papp, M I ^a   Lantos, P L ^c   Aranyi Z ^a   Szirmai, I G ^a   Farsang, M ^a   Stuke, A ^d   Csillik, A ^a   Collinge, J ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; PRION PROTEIN; PRNP PROTEIN, HUMAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUNGARY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PRION;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; PEDIGREE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 33847721426     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.104372     Document Type: Article

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