Review. Lessons of kuru research: background to recent studies with some personal reflections.

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Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on November 27, 2008

Authors

John Collinge1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, MRC Prion Unit, UCL Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK. j.collinge@prion.ucl.ac.uk

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