Quantifying prion disease penetrance using large population control cohorts

2016 Science Translational Medicine 444 citations

Abstract

Large genomic reference data sets reveal a spectrum of pathogenicity in the prion protein gene and provide genetic validation for a therapeutic strategy in prion disease.

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PenetranceDiseaseBiologyPathogenicityGeneticsPopulationPrion proteinGeneComputational biologyVirologyBioinformaticsMedicinePhenotypePathology

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2016
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Volume
8
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322
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322ra9-322ra9
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Eric Vallabh Minikel, Sonia M. Vallabh, Monkol Lek et al. (2016). Quantifying prion disease penetrance using large population control cohorts. Science Translational Medicine , 8 (322) , 322ra9-322ra9. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.aad5169

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10.1126/scitranslmed.aad5169