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Cathepsin D SNP associated with increased risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
BACKGROUND: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) originally resulted from the consumption of foodstuffs contaminated by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) material, with 163 confirmed cases in the UK to date. Many thousands are likely to have been exposed to dietary infection and so it is im...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374769/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18426579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2350-9-31 |