Novel PRNP mutation in a patient with a slow progressive dementia syndrome

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Heinemann, Uta ^a   Krasnianski, Anna ^a   Meissner, Bettina ^a   Grasbon Frodl, Eva M ^b   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^b   Zerr, Inga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

14 3 3; CJD; Dementia; Prion protein gene; PRNP mutation

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; METHIONINE; VALINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

14-3-3 PROTEINS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CODON; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DEMENTIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUTATION; PRIONS;

EID: 43549126220     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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