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Detection of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using a Duplexed Real-Time PCR Approach With Locked Nucleic Acid-Modified Primers.
Annals of laboratory medicine - 1 Jan 2021
Pan Jianyan, Zhang Chunhua, Teng Yanling, Zeng Sijing, Chen Siyi, Liang Desheng, Li Zhuo, Wu Lingqian
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder mainly caused by homozygous deletions that include exon 7 of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. A nearby paralog gene, SMN2, obstructs the specific detection of SMN1. We optimized a duplexed real-time PCR approach using locked nucleic acid (LNA)-modified primers to specifically detect SMN1. METHODS: An LNA-modified...
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