Heterozygosity at polymorphic codon 219 in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1021-1023

  Lukic, Ana ^a,b   Beck, Jonathan ^a   Joiner, Susan ^a   Fearnley, Julian ^c   Sturman, Steve ^d   Brandner, Sebastian ^a   Wadsworth, Jonathan D F ^a   Collinge, John ^a,b   Mead, Simon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CODON; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

14-3-3 PROTEINS; ADULT; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PRIONS;

EID: 77955435336     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2010.184     Document Type: Article

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