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A Novel Protective Prion Protein Variant that Colocalizes with Kuru Exposure

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Increased Susceptibility to Kuru of Carriers of the PRNP 129 Methionine/Methionine Genotype

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A clinical study of kuru patients with long incubation periods at the end of the epidemic in Papua New Guinea

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A clinico-pathological study of a case of kuru

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