Delivery of a read-through inducing compound, TC007, lessens the severity of a spinal muscular atrophy animal model

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Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the leading genetic cause of infant mortality and is caused by the loss of a functional SMN1 gene. In humans, there exists a nearly-identical copy gene known as SMN2 that encodes an identical protein as SMN1, but differs by a silent C to T transition within exon 7. This single nucleotide difference produces an alternatively spliced isoform, SMNDelta7, which encodes a rapidly...

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