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Inherited prion disease with six octapeptide repeat insertional mutation—molecular analysis of phenotypic
heterogeneity
by Simon Mead, Mark Poulter, Jon Beck, Thomas E. F. Webb, Tracy A. Campbell, Jacqueline M. Linehan, Melanie Desbruslais, Susan Joiner, Jonathan D. F.
Wadsworth, Andrew King, Peter Lantos, and John Collinge
BrainVolume 129(9):2297-2317
August 21, 2006
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Linked microsatellite haplotypes on chromosome 20.
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The UK 6-OPRI prion disease pedigree The smaller pedigree 2 shares the same microsatellite and SNP haplotype background as the larger pedigree.
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(A) Cumulative age of onset and age at death curves; (B) cumulative age of onset curves for the two genotypes at codon 129.
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(A) Age at onset and (B) age at death histograms with curves modelling the data assuming a normal distribution.
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Of historical interest is an autopsy report of an individual in the pedigree (III.5) who was admitted in 1897 and died in 1901.
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MRI appearances of 6-OPRI prion disease These show cerebral and cerebellar atrophy (A) Coronal T1 at the level of the hippocampus, (B) Axial T2 at the level of the basal ganglia and (C)
Sagittal T1 (all from patient VII.20).
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Neuropathology from two autopsy cases of 6-OPRI prion disease.
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Pearson correlation of age of onset versus duration of disease.
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Kaplan–Meier survival curves.
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Molecular PrPSc typing in 6-OPRI prion disease (A) Immunoblot with anti-PrP monoclonal antibody 3F4.
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Heritability of age of onset.
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