STMN2 and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Specifically, Mead and others [40] found an association with acquired prion diseases, including vCJD (p = 5.6 × 10(-5)), kuru incubation time (p = 0.017), and resistance to kuru (p = 2.5 × 10(-4)), in a region upstream of STMN2 (the gene that encodes SCG10).