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A degron created by SMN2 exon 7 skipping is a principal contributor to spinal muscular atrophy severity.
Genes & development - 1 Mar 2010
Cho Sungchan, Dreyfuss Gideon
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by homozygous survival of motor neurons 1 (SMN1) gene deletions, leaving a duplicate gene, SMN2, as the sole source of SMN protein. However, most of the mRNA produced from SMN2 pre-mRNA is exon 7-skipped ( approximately 80%), resulting in a highly unstable...
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