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Published online 11 November 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041108-14
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Mice with 'good' genes succumb to vCJD
New strains of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease may yet emerge.
People with genes thought to protect against variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) may still be at risk of developing some strains of the illness, animal studies suggest.
All of the 146 British people who have died from vCJD, which is thought to be caused by eating meat infected with the prion protein that causes mad cow disease, have a genetic variation known as MM.
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