Furukawa H, Kitamoto T, Hashiguchi H, Tateishi J
Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
J Neurol Sci. 1996 Sep 15;141(1-2):120-2. doi: 10.1016/0022-510x(96)00157-8.
We screened 111 cases of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and 75 healthy control subjects in Japan to detect possible polymorphisms in their prion protein gene (PRNP). We identified a G-to-A point substitution at codon 210, leading a valine-to-isoleucine change, in a 69-year-old CJD patient. This substitution was not seen in 75 healthy control subjects.