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A comment on The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows. Parent comment

Re:The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows by nonbel on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:37PM (#19131646)
>"so far all symptoms of prion-type disease for which a cause has been found have turned out to be associated with errors in PRNP."

Thanks, this is an interesting new fact to me if true. Is there a source for it?

I don't mean a source proving there are no others or something else silly like that. I mean like a review article that mentions they couldn't find any publication about any amyloid beyond PRNP-derived ones being transmitted.

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Re:The Case for Transmissible Alzheimer's Grows by escape_goat on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:01AM (#19134079)
I can't give you a source like that. From the Wikipedia article on prions, it appears that several prion-based diseases are suspected, but that so far the only proven cause for such a disease has been the "major prion protein." In 2015 a hypothesis was advanced that multiple system atrophy (Shy–Drager syndrome) was caused by a prion form of the alpha-synuclein molecule. However, if any subsequent proof has followed, neither the wikipedia pages on prions or alpha-synuclein have caught up with that.
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