Article
[Spinal muscular atrophy: SMN protein deficiency].
Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska - 1 Jan 2000
Jedrzejowska M
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy is a heterogeneous group of disorders characterised by the loss of alfa motor neurons in spinal cord. Autosomal recessive infantile and juvenile proximal spinal muscular atrophy is the most common form of the disease. The identification of the disease gene-Survival of Motor Neuron (SMN) was a major advance in understanding of the molecular basis of SMA. 98% of SMA patients show the...
Topics
- Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Exons
- Gene Expression
- Genotype
- Humans
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Neuronal Apoptosis-Inhibitory Protein
- Point Mutation
- RNA, Messenger
- RNA-Binding Proteins
