Genetic susceptibility, evolution and the kuru epidemic

The acquired prion disease kuru was restricted to the Fore and neighbouring linguistic groups of the Papua New Guinea highlands and largely affected children and adult women. Oral history documents the onset of the epidemic in the early twentieth century, followed by a peak in the mid-twentieth cent...

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Autores principales: Mead, Simon, Whitfield, Jerome, Poulter, Mark, Shah, Paresh, Uphill, James, Beck, Jonathan, Campbell, Tracy, Al-Dujaily, Huda, Hummerich, Holger, Alpers, Michael P., Collinge, John
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2576515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0087

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2576515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0087

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