[Expression of the prion protein gene (Prnp) and production of the PrP protein are essential requirements for acquisition and spread of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE