Cathepsin D SNP associated with increased risk of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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...
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Main Authors: | Sanchez-Juan Pascual (Author), Kovacs Gabor G (Author), Bishop Matthew T (Author), Knight Richard SG (Author) |
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