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Spinal muscular atrophy: present state.
Brain pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) - 1 Apr 2001
Schmalbruch H, Haase G
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease caused by homozygous deletions or mutations in the SMN1 gene on Chr.5q13. SMA spans from severe Werdnig-Hoffmann disease (SMA 1) to relatively benign Kugelberg-Welander disease (SMA 3). Onset before birth possibly aggravates the clinical course, because immature motoneurons do not show compensatory sprouting and collateral reinnervation, and...
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