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A common spinal muscular atrophy deletion mutation is present on a single founder haplotype in the US Hutterites.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Oct 2011
Chong Jessica X, Oktay A Afşin, Dai Zunyan, Swoboda Kathryn J, Prior Thomas W, Ober Carole
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive (AR) neuromuscular disease that is one of the most common lethal genetic disorders in children, with carrier frequencies as high as ∼1 in 35 in US Whites. As part of our genetic studies in the Hutterites from South Dakota, we identified a large 22 Mb run of homozygosity, spanning the SMA locus in an affected child, of which 10 Mb was also homozygous in three...
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