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The single nucleotide polymorphism at codon 129 of the prion protein gene, PRNP, encoding either M or V, is recognized as influencing host susceptibility and modifying strain characteristics for human prion diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Kuru, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome and fatal familial insomnia (Lee et al., 2001; Pocchiari et al., 2004; Kobayashi et al., 2015).
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