PRNP, prion protein, 5621

N. diseases: 426; N. variants: 47
Source: ALL
Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The presence of abnormal, disease-related prion protein (PrP<sup>D</sup>) has recently been demonstrated by protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) in urine of patients affected with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a prion disease typically acquired from consumption of prion contaminated bovine meat. 30914754 2019
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease strain is identical in individuals of two PRNP codon 129 genotypes. 30938429 2019
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Abnormal prion protein (PrP<sup>TSE</sup>) extracted from the brains of vCJD-infected TgBo110 mice displayed different glycosylation profiles and had greater resistance to denaturation by guanidine hydrochloride than PrP<sup>TSE</sup> from infected wild-type mice or from either inoculum. 29458529 2018
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here we report that serial passage of experimental sheep BSE prions in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with methionine at residue 129 produces the vCJD phenotype that mirrors that seen when the same mice are challenged with vCJD prions from patient brain. 29406965 2018
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Transfusion transmission of human prion diseases has been observed for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), but not for the classic forms of prion disease (CJD: sporadic, genetic, and iatrogenic). 28444687 2017
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE We analyzed 128 suitable frontal cortex samples, from prion-affected patients (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) n = 20, iatrogenic CJD (iCJD) n = 11, sporadic CJD (sCJD) n = 23, familial CJD (gCJD) n = 17, fatal familial insomnia (FFI) n = 9, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS)) n = 4), patients with Alzheimer disease (AD, n = 14) and age-matched controls (n = 30). 29142239 2017
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Recently, we have demonstrated PrP(TSE) in extracellular vesicle preparations (EVs) containing exosomes from plasma of mice infected with mouse-adapted vCJD by Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification (PMCA). 27499183 2016
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Besides the molecular typing of protease-resistant PrP in the brain, transmission studies using knock-in mice carrying bovine PrP may aid the differential diagnosis of secondary vCJD infection, especially in individuals with the 129V/V genotype. 23792955 2013
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE We investigated the effect of this polymorphism on amplification of human and macaque vCJD PrP(TSE). 24205298 2013
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE This individual was heterozygous (MV) at codon 129 of the prion protein gene (PRNP), whereas all previous definite and probable cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been methionine homozygotes (MM). 23449776 2013
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease CTD_human Snord 3A: a molecular marker and modulator of prion disease progression. 23349890 2013
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our study reveals 2 new genome-wide significant markers for vCJD outside PRNP and provides evidence supporting a role of the phosphatidylinositol pathway in vCJD susceptibility. 22137330 2012
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Correlation of polydispersed prion protein and characteristic pathology in the thalamus in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: implication of small oligomeric species. 21029243 2011
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In contrast, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which results from oral exposure to the agent of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is a highly stereotyped disease, that, until now, has only occurred in patients who are methionine homozygous at codon 129 of the PrP gene. 21790605 2011
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE This technique also allows a greatly enhanced sensitivity of detection of disease-associated prion protein in human tissues and fluids, which is potentially applicable to disease screening, particularly for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. 20535485 2011
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The diagnosis was confirmed by a tonsillar biopsy demonstrating abnormal prion protein deposition in a typical pattern for vCJD. 20697057 2010
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE We describe a study to detect disease-associated, protease-resistant prion protein (PrP(res)) in 17 neurologically aymptomatic patients with haemophilia considered to be at increased risk of vCJD. 20070383 2010
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Strain-specific viral properties of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are encoded by the agent and not by host prion protein. 19097123 2009
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE For example, cross-sequence transmission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) prions to human generated variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) prions which retained the transmissibility to mice expressing bovine PrP. 19659941 2009
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE Human prion protein (PrP) 219K is converted to PrPSc but shows heterozygous inhibition in variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease infection. 19074151 2009
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Although the main contribution to disease risk was conferred by PRNP polymorphic codon 129, another nearby SNP conferred increased risk of vCJD. 19081515 2009
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE So far, all clinical cases of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), thought to result from the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) prion agent, have shown Methionine-Methionine (M/M) homozygosity at the M129V polymorphism of the PRNP gene. 19495414 2009
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 Biomarker disease BEFREE The single monkey infected with BASE had a shorter survival, and a different clinical evolution, histopathology, and prion protein (PrPres) pattern than was observed for either classical BSE or vCJD-inoculated animals. 18714385 2008
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Archival kuru and recent variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) cases reveal distinct lesional differences, particularly with respect to prion protein, suggesting that the strain of agent is important in determining the phenotype. 18849282 2008
New Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
0.600 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE Paired-pulse stimulation of the Schaffer collaterals evoked hypersynchronous bursting in the hippocampus of vCJD-inoculated mice; comparable bursts were never observed in control or Prnp knockout mice, or in mice inoculated with a strain of prion associated with classical CJD. 18638557 2008