Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Discrete subtypes or a spectrum of disease

Brain

Volumn 132, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2627-2629

  Head, Mark W ^a   Ironside, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

BRAIN DISEASE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM;

EID: 70349952066     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awp225     Document Type: Note

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