Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with a point mutation at codon 210 of the prion protein gene

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most known human prion disease, is usually sporadic but approximately 15% of the cases are familial. To date, seven CJD cases with codon 210 mutation (GTT to ATT) have been reported in the literature. We describe a case of a 57 year-old woman who presented gait d...

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Main Authors: Nancy Huang, Suely K.N. Marie, Fernando Kok, Ricardo Nitrini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2001-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2001000600017&tlng=en
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