Fatal familial insomnia and familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: disease phenotype determined by a DNA polymorphism.

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Published in Science on October 30, 1992

Authors

L G Goldfarb1, R B Petersen, M Tabaton, P Brown, A C LeBlanc, P Montagna, P Cortelli, J Julien, C Vital, W W Pendelbury

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1: Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

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