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SMN mRNA and protein levels in peripheral blood
16 Feb 2006
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BACKGROUND: Clinical trials of drugs that increase SMN protein levels in vitro are currently under way in patients with spinal muscular atrophy. OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate measures of SMN mRNA and protein in peripheral blood and to establish baseline SMN levels in a cohort of controls, carriers, and patients of known genotype, which could be used to follow response to treatment. METHODS: SMN1 and SMN2...
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