伦敦大学学院下属英国朊病毒研究中心的西蒙·米德表示，抗库鲁病基因的发现，是人类还在不断进化最有说服力的证据。
Simon Mead of the British prion research centre at University College London says the discovery of an "anti-kuru" gene is the most clear-cut evidence yet of human evolution in action.
他们在51位幸存者和他们的后代身上发现了一种目前为止无人发现的PRNP变体。PRNP是含有库鲁病传染源——朊病毒——一种蛋白质的源代码。
In 51 survivors and their descendants, they discovered a hitherto-unknown variant of PRNP, the gene which makes prions, the proteins that spread the disease.
朊病毒是一种畸形的蛋白质，导致一些致命的疾病：如疯牛病，羊痒病，人类库鲁和克雅氏病(CJD, vCJD)。
Prions cause a number of fatal diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
朊病毒是一种畸形的蛋白质，导致一些致命的疾病：如疯牛病，羊痒病，人类库鲁和克雅氏病(CJD, vCJD)。
Prions cause a number of fatal diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
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