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Molecular and functional analysis of intragenic SMN1 mutations in patients with spinal muscular atrophy.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 2005
Sun Y, Grimmler M, Schwarzer V, Schoenen F, Fischer U, Wirth B
Abstract excerpt
The autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neuromuscular disease and frequent cause of early death in childhood, is caused in 96% of patients by homozygous absence of the survival motor neuron gene (SMN1). The severity of the disease is mainly determined by the copy number of SMN2, a copy gene which predominantly produces exon 7-skipped transcripts and only low amount of full-length transcripts that...
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