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Jerome Whitfield

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Active since

2003

Affiliations

Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research(Current)

University College London

Curtin University

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Jerome Whitfield is an author at Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research specializing in prion diseases, genetics, and life sciences.

Publications per year

2003–2024

13

Publications

13

Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods

John Collinge, Jerome Whitfield, Edward McKintosh et al. · The Lancet · 2006 · 398 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Pathobiology +14

Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kurulike Epidemics

Simon Mead, Michael P. H. Stumpf, Jerome Whitfield et al. · Science · 2003 · 393 citations

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics +14

A naturally occurring variant of the human prion protein completely prevents prion disease

Emmanuel A. Asante, Michelle Smidak, Andrew Grimshaw et al. · Nature · 2015 · 201 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Biology +12

A Novel Protective Prion Protein Variant that Colocalizes with Kuru Exposure

Simon Mead, Jerome Whitfield, Mark Poulter et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2009 · 200 citations · Full text

Veterinary Medicine, Genetics, Infectious Diseases +11

Genetic risk factors for variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: a genome-wide association study

Simon Mead, Mark Poulter, James Uphill et al. · The Lancet Neurology · 2008 · 153 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +13

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