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[Quantitative analysis of the genes determining spinal muscular atrophy].
Ideggyogyaszati szemle - 30 Nov 2009
Nagymihály Mariann, Herczegfalvi Agnes, Tímár László, Karcagi Veronika
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common autosomal recessive diseases, affecting approximately one in 10,000 live births and with a carrier frequency of approximately one in 35. The disease is caused by a deficiency of the ubiquitous protein survival of motor neuron (SMN), which is encoded by the SMN1 and SMN2 genes. Due to a single nucleotide polymorphism in exon 7, SMN2 produces less full-length...
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