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Comment
. 2000 Aug;67(2):528-31.
doi: 10.1086/303021.

Age and origin of the PRNP E200K mutation causing familial Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Libyan Jews

R Colombo
Comment

Age and origin of the PRNP E200K mutation causing familial Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Libyan Jews

R Colombo. Am J Hum Genet. 2000 Aug.
No abstract available

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Electronic-Database Information

    1. LDB, the Genetic Location Database, Department of Human Genetics, University of Southampton, UK, http://cedar.genetics.soton.ac.uk/public_html/ldb.html
    1. Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM), http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim (for CJD [MIM 123400] and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease [MIM 137440])
    1. Sanger Centre, The, http://webace.sanger.ac.uk/cgi-bin/ace/simple/

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