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Discovery of specific mutations in spinal muscular atrophy patients by next-generation sequencing.
Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology - 1 May 2021
Fang Yu-Lian, Li Na, Zhi Xiu-Fang, Zheng Jie, Liu Yang, Pu Lin-Jie, Gu Chun-Yu, Shu Jian-Bo, Cai Chun-Quan
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a type of autosomal recessive genetic disease, which seriously threatens the health and lives of children and adolescents. We attempted to find some genes and mutations related to the onset of SMA. Eighty-three whole-blood samples were collected from 28 core families, including 28 probands with clinically suspected SMA (20 SMA patients, 5 non-SMA children, and 3 patients with...
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