Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the patients included in our study (n = 57)

Sex	27 males, 30 females; male-female ratio 0.9
Age at disease onset (median)	61.5 (23–81)
Codon 129 genotype (n = 55)	MM: 39 MV: 3 VV: 13 n.d.: 2
PrPSc	type 1: 32 type 2: 9
Duration of disease (months)	4.26 (1.1–34.3)
Onset until lumbar punction (months)	3.02 (0.3–27.8)
Lumbar punction until death (months)	0.94 (0–30.8)