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T188K-Familial Creutzfeldt–Jacob Disease, Predominant Among Chinese, has a Reactive Pattern in CSF RT-QuIC Different from D178N-Fatal Familial Insomnia and E200K-Familial CJD

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This work was supported by National Science and Technology Major Project of China (2017ZX10104001002005), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81630062, 81301429, and 81572048), National Key R&D Program (2016YFC1202700) and State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (SKLID) Program of China (2012SKLID102 and 2015SKLID503).

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    Kang Xiao, Qi Shi, Wei Zhou, Bao-Yun Zhang, Yuan Wang, Cao Chen, Yue Ma, Chen Gao & Xiao-Ping Dong

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Xiao, K., Shi, Q., Zhou, W. et al. T188K-Familial Creutzfeldt–Jacob Disease, Predominant Among Chinese, has a Reactive Pattern in CSF RT-QuIC Different from D178N-Fatal Familial Insomnia and E200K-Familial CJD. Neurosci. Bull. 35, 519–521 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-019-00354-z

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