PRNP allelic series from 19 years of prion protein gene sequencing at the MRC prion unit

Human Mutation

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Beck, Jon A ^a   Poulter, Mark ^a   Campbell, Tracy A ^a   Adamson, Gary ^a   Uphill, James B ^a   Guerreiro, Rita ^b   Jackson, Graham S ^a   Stevens, James C ^a   Manji, Hadi ^a   Collinge, John ^a   Mead, Simon ^a  

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

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele; Diagnosis; Inherited; Mutation screening; Prion; PRNP

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PRION;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRNP GENE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRION; PRION DISEASES; PROCEDURES; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALLELES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONDON; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS;

EID: 77954102231     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21281     Document Type: Article

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