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[Indirect molecular-genetic family study and prenatal diagnosis of infantile spinal muscular atrophy].
Klinische Padiatrie - 1 Jan 2000
Heber U, Müller C R
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most common severe inherited diseases in childhood and especially the acute form of type I (Werdnig-Hoffmann) results in early death. Recently, all three types of childhood-onset SMA have been mapped to chromosome 5. Since then heterozygote detection in siblings and prenatal diagnosis of SMA type I is possible by indirect genetic analysis. As the gene and the mutation...
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