# Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome

> prion disease characterized by adult onset of memory loss, dementia, ataxia, and pathologic deposition of amyloid-like plaques in the brain

**Wikidata**: [Q383228](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q383228)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker_syndrome)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/gerstmann-straussler-scheinker-syndrome


## References

1. Disease Ontology
2. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29
3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
4. UniProt
5. Interactions between wild-type and mutant prion proteins modulate neurodegeneration in transgenic mice
6. Linkage of a prion protein missense variant to Gerstmann-Sträussler syndrome
7. [Open Targets Platform](https://platform.opentargets.org/evidence/ENSG00000171867/MONDO_0007656)
8. [Identifiers.org](https://registry.identifiers.org/registry/doid)