Association of a null allele of SPRN with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 813-817

  Beck, J A ^a   Campbell, T A ^a   Adamson, G ^a   Poulter, M ^a   Uphill, J B ^a   Molou, E ^a   Collinge, J ^a   Mead, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; SHADOW OF PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULL ALLELE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS;

EID: 57349086072     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmg.2008.061804     Document Type: Article

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