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Establishment of a Pilot Newborn Screening Program for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Saint Petersburg
25 Jan 2024
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy 5q (SMA) is one of the most common neuromuscular inherited diseases and is the most common genetic cause of infant mortality. SMA is associated with homozygous deletion of exon 7 in the SMN1 gene. Recently developed drugs can improve the motor functions of infants with SMA when they are treated in the pre-symptomatic stage. With aim of providing an early diagnosis, newborn screening (NBS)...
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