Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia, and kuru are fatal diseases of the central nervous system, known as transmissible subacute spongiform encephalopathies (193). Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the most common of these and has an incidence of 1 1000 000 in most countries. About 10% of those involved have a familial disposition, but most cases occur sporadically. There are similar diseases in sheep (scrapie), cattle (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), and other animal species. The cause of the... 

Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome is a prion disease finked to germ fine mutations or insertions in the human prion protein gene resulting in a neurodegenerative brain disorder. 

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