Genome-wide association study in multiple human prion diseases suggests genetic risk factors additional to PRNP

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1897-1906

  Mead, Simon ^a   Uphill, James ^a   Beck, John ^a   Poulter, Mark ^a   Campbell, Tracy ^a   Lowe, Jessica ^a   Adamson, Gary ^a   Hummerich, Holger ^a   Klopp, Norman ^b   Rückert, Ina Maria ^b   Wichmann, H Erich ^b   Azazi, Dhoyazan ^c   Plagnol, Vincent ^c   Pako, Wandagi H ^d   Whitfield, Jerome ^a,e   Alpers, Michael P ^a,d,e   Whittaker, John ^f   Balding, David J ^c   Zerr, Inga ^g   Kretzschmar, Hans ^h   Collinge, John ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Goroka EHP   (Papua New Guinea)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; HUMAN; KURU; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; KURU; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRION DISEASES; PRIONS; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIAN PRION;

EID: 84859233894     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr607     Document Type: Article

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