[We examined the frequency of the APOE alleles in patients with various forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, or prion diseases, including sporadic and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease associated with PRNP 178N/129V and 200K/129M point mutations and a 24-nucleotide repeat expansion; fatal familial insomnia caused by the 178N/129M mutation; Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease associated with 102L/129M mutation; and kuru.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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