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What is sporadic fatal insomnia I read in google is this disease in india how it is transmitted please clarify doctors.
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It is usually caused by a mutation to the gene encoding protein prpc. It has two forms: fatal familial insomnia (ffi), which is autosomal dominant and sporadic fatal insomnia (sfi) which is due to a noninherited mutation.
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