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Genotype-phenotype studies in infantile spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type I in Germany: implications for clinical trials and genetic counselling.
Clinical genetics - 1 Aug 2009
Rudnik-Schöneborn S, Berg C, Zerres K, Betzler C, Grimm T, Eggermann T, Eggermann K, Wirth R, Wirth B, Heller R
Abstract excerpt
We reviewed the natural history and assessed the SMN2 copy number of 66 patients with infantile spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) type I born between 2000 and 2005 in Germany whose diagnosis was confirmed by a homozygous SMN1 deletion in the first 6 months of life. After excluding patients who had received valproic acid, the median/mean age at disease endpoint was 6.1/7.3 months (range 0.0-34.0). Four (6.1%) patients...
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