Is there a disease that kills by preventing sleep?
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The Importance of Protein and Infection
Stanley Prouzener coined the term "infection" in 1982. He won a Nobel Prize for his work on this disease, which is inherited insomnia. It comes down to what's called a polymorphism on a codon - sequence of nucleotides,. amino acids on your DNA. And under normal circumstances, on this gene, the PRPC protein is coded. But if you have a different nucleotide combination, you start coding the PRPSC.
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