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Science 16 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5546, pp. 1438 - 1439
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5546.1438b
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GENES AND DISEASE:
Immune Gene Linked to vCJD Susceptibility

Michael Balter

Researchers have found that a common variation of an immune system gene may offer some protection against variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease--the fatal neurodegenerative disease linked to eating cattle infected with "mad cow disease." The new finding--the second genetic factor discovered so far that influences susceptibility to the disease--may help to identify high-risk individuals and provide some clues to the modus operandi of this mysterious, incurable malady.

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)