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Spinal muscular atrophy: from gene to therapy.
Seminars in pediatric neurology - 1 Jun 2006
Wirth Brunhilde, Brichta Lars, Hahnen Eric
Abstract excerpt
The molecular basis of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder, is the homozygous loss of the survival motor neuron gene 1 (SMN1). A nearly identical copy of the SMN1 gene, called SMN2, modulates the disease severity. The functional difference between both gen...
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