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Molecular diagnosis and genetic counseling for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie - 1 Dec 2020
Rouzier C, Chaussenot A, Paquis-Flucklinger V
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular autosomal recessive disorder caused by bi-allelic pathogenic variants in the SMN1 gene. 95% of SMA patients have a SMN1 homozygous deletion. In the 5% remaining affected patients, a heterozygous SMN1 deletion is associated with an intragenic SMN1 rare inactivating pathogenic variant on the other allele. The clinical phenotype of SMA is heterogeneous and severity is...
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