Article
SMN(T) and NAIP mutations in Canadian families with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA): genotype/phenotype correlations with disease severity.
American journal of medical genetics - 3 Oct 1997
Simard L R, Rochette C, Semionov A, Morgan K, Vanasse M
Abstract excerpt
Childhood-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive neuropathy characterized by selective degeneration of alpha-motor neuron cells of the spinal cord. Age of onset and motor development varies greatly among patients, but the molecular basis of this variability remains unclear....
Topics
- Canada
- Chimera
- Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein
- Exons
- Female
- Gene Deletion
- Genotype
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Introns
- Male
- Muscular Atrophy, Spinal
