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Spinal muscular atrophy genetic testing experience at an academic medical center.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Feb 2002
Ogino Shuji, Leonard Debra G B, Rennert Hanna, Wilson Robert B
Abstract excerpt
Approximately 94% of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients lack both copies of SMN1 exon 7. We report our SMA genetic testing experience (total 1281 cases), using SMA linkage analysis (32 families), SMA diagnostic testing by PCR-RFLP (restriction fragment length polymorphism) to detect the homozygous absence of SMN1 exon 7 (and exon 8) (533 cases), and an assay to determine copy number of SMN1 exon 7 (SMN1 gene...
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