[Since homozygosity MM at codon 129 of the prion protein gene is a recognised risk factor in all forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), we studied the distribution of codon 129 polymorphism in patients in France and in the UK with CJD transmitted iatrogenically by human growth hormone.]. 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