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Establishment of a molecular diagnostic system for spinal muscular atrophy experience from a clinical laboratory in china.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Jan 2011
Zeng Jian, Lin Yanhong, Yan Aizhen, Ke Longfeng, Zhu Zhongyong, Lan Fenghua
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder characterized by degeneration of the anterior horn of the spinal cord. The disease gene survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) is homozygously absent in approximately 95% of patients, and approximately 5% of patients are believed to have subtle mutations. Although methods for molecular diagnosis of SMA have been reported singly, no...
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