Article
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy.
Molecular human reproduction - 1 Sept 1998
Dreesen J C, Bras M, de Die-Smulders C, Dumoulin J C, Cobben J M, Evers J L, Smeets H J, Geraedts J P
Abstract excerpt
After Duchenne muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common severe neuromuscular disease in childhood. Since 1995, homozygous deletions in exon 7 of the survival motor neuron (SMN) gene have been described in >90-95% of SMA patients. However, the presence of a highly homol...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Blastomeres
- Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein
- DNA Primers
- Exons
- Female
- Genotype
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Male
- Muscular Atrophy, Spinal
