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Genetic findings of Cypriot spinal muscular atrophy patients.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 Oct 2015
Theodorou L, Nicolaou P, Koutsou P, Georghiou A, Anastasiadou V, Tanteles G, Kyriakides T, Zamba-Papanicolaou E, Christodoulou K
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive, neurodegenerative disorder characterised commonly by proximal muscle weakness and wasting in the absence of sensory signs. Deletion or disruption of the SMN1 gene causes the disease. The SMN1 gene is located within an inverted duplication on chromosome 5q13 with the genes SMN2, NAIP and GTF2H2. MLPA analysis of 13 Cypriot SMA patients revealed that, 12...
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