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Genetically determined neuromuscular disorders of some Roma families living in Hungary.
Ideggyogyaszati szemle - 30 Jan 2009
Aranka Laszlo, Peter Mayer, Jeno Kobor, Katalin Racz, Gyula Talosi, Emoke Endreffy, Agnes Herczegfalvi, Tibor Hortobagyi, Laszlo Tiszlavicz, Edit Bereg, Marta Katona, Janos Szabo, Veronika Karcagi
Abstract excerpt
The authors discuss the clinical and molecular genetic aspects of genetically determined neuromuscular disorders of some Roma families living in Hungary. Among the autosomal recessively inherited spinal muscular atrophic (SMA) group, 8 Caucasian children had the typical 7-8 exonal deletions of the SMA gene, but only 2 patients belonged to the Roma population. There was no difference in the molecular genetic...
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