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A pilot study of a genetic CJD risk factor (E200K) in the general Slovak population

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Acknowledgments

The work was supported by a grant from the EC “Protecting the food chain from prions: shaping European priorities through basic and applied research”, PRIORITY, No222887 and by grant from the EU Joint Programme “Neurodegenerative Disease Research” Biomarker based diagnosis of rapid progressive dementias, JPND- DEMTEST, 01ED1201A.

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  1. Medical Faculty, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Eva Mitrová, Dana Kosorinová, Martin Gajdoš & Ivana Tomečková

  2. Department of Prion Diseases, Slovak Medical University, Limbová 14., 83303, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Eva Mitrová, Dana Kosorinová & Ivana Tomečková

  3. Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Slovak Medical University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Martin Gajdoš

  4. Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, Medical Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Katarína Šebeková

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Mitrová, E., Kosorinová, D., Gajdoš, M. et al. A pilot study of a genetic CJD risk factor (E200K) in the general Slovak population. Eur J Epidemiol 29, 595–597 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9937-9

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