Seven-year discordance in age at onset in monozygotic twins with inherited prion disease (P102L)

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 427-432

  Webb, T ^a,b   Mead, S ^a,b   Beck, J ^b   Uphill, J ^b   Pal, S ^a,b   Hampson, S ^a   Wadsworth, J D F ^b   Dalmau Mena, I ^b   Malley, C O ^b   Wroe, S ^a,b   Schapira, A ^c   Brandner, S ^b   Collinge, J ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PRION PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; GENE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLIOSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHERITED PRION DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; ONSET AGE; POINT MUTATION; PRION DISEASE; PRION PROTEIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TWIN DISCORDANCE;

AGE OF ONSET; BRAIN; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; PRPSC PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 67649939048     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2009.01012.x     Document Type: Article

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