Evidence for varied Aetiologies regulating the transmission of prion disease: Implications for understanding the heritable basis of prion incubation times

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Iyegbe, Conrad O ^a   Abiola, Oduola O ^b   Towlson, Chris ^a   Powell, John F ^a   Whatley, Steven A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 18; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INCUBATION TIME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; C57BL MOUSE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DBA MOUSE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE; PRION; PRION DISEASE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 78649965800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014186     Document Type: Article

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