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Systemic nature of spinal muscular atrophy revealed by studying insurance claims
14 Mar 2019
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OBJECTIVE: We investigated the presence of non-neuromuscular phenotypes in patients affected by Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a disorder caused by a mutation in the Survival of Motor Neuron (SMN) gene, and whether these phenotypes may be clinically detectable prior to clinical signs of neuromuscular degeneration and therefore independent of muscle weakness. METHODS: We utilized a de-identified database of...
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