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2018, Neurologic ClinicsCitation Excerpt :This finding might have been due to misdiagnosis in prior generations or reduced penetrance of some mutations. Although at least some genetic PrDs are known to be transmissible by direct inoculation into animals,89,90 human-to-human transmission of genetic PrD has not been reported. It is not known if genetic PrD can be transmitted by blood.
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2012, Journal of Clinical NeuroscienceCitation Excerpt :Notably, no D178N mutation in SFI has been identified.4,5 Importantly, both FFI and SFI are transmissible diseases, which has been demonstrated experimentally.5–8 Previous studies on polymorphisms on the codon 129 have demonstrated that while FFI patients have methionine (Met) at position 129 in the mutated allele with D178N, familial Creutzfeldt–Jacob disease (CJD) may occur when the same D178N mutation is linked with valine (Val) at position 129.2,9