Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Study data from M.T. Bishop et al provide new insights into Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 15th, 2008
"Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) originally resulted from the consumption of foodstuffs contaminated by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) material, with 163 confirmed cases in the UK to date. Many thousands are likely to have been exposed to dietary infection and so it is important (for surveillance, epidemic modelling, public health and understanding pathogenesis) to identify genetic factors that may affect individual susceptibility to infection," researchers in Scotland report.
"This study looked at a polymorphism in the cathepsin D gene (refSNP ID: rs17571) previously examined in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Blood samples taken from 110 vCJD patients were...
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