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Nusinersen in the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2018
Goodkey Kara, Aslesh Tejal, Maruyama Rika, Yokota Toshifumi
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common genetic causes of infantile death arising due to mutations in the SMN1 gene and the subsequent loss of motor neurons. With the discovery of the intronic splicing silencer N1 (ISS-N1) as a potential target for antisense therapy, several antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are being developed to include exon 7 in the final mRNA transcript of the SMN2 gene and...
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