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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Autores principales: Bishop, Matthew T, Kovacs, Gabor G, Sanchez-Juan, Pascual, Knight, Richard SG
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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