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SMN1 duplications contribute to sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis susceptibility: evidence from a meta-analysis.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 May 2014
Wang Xue-Bin, Cui Ning-Hua, Gao Jia-Jia, Qiu Xue-Ping, Zheng Fang
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between SMN1 and SMN2 copy number variations (CNVs) and sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS) by a meta-analysis. METHODS: Through searching PubMed and EMBASE database (or manual searching) up to November 2013 using the following keywords: "survival motor neuron gene", "SMN", and "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis", "ALS" or "motor neuron disease". Nine studies were...
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