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Extensive DNA deletion associated with severe disease alleles on spinal muscular atrophy homologues.
Annals of neurology - 1 Jul 1997
Wang C H, Carter T A, Das K, Xu J, Ross B M, Penchaszadeh G K, Gilliam T C
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a motor neuron disease presenting with a wide spectrum of phenotypic variations. The primary cause of most, if not all, forms of childhood-onset spinal muscular atrophy appears to be the homozygous loss of the telomeric copy of the survival motor neuron (SMNT) gene. It is interesting that approximately half of all affected patients are likewise homozygous nulls for the neuronal...
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