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Establishment of a Pilot Newborn Screening Program for Spinal Muscular Atrophy in Saint-Petersburg
2023-02-28
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy 5q (SMA) is the most common neuromuscular inherited disease in neonates which is associated with homozygous deletion of exon 7 in the SMN1 gene. Recently established drugs can improve the motor functions of SMA infants when treated in the pre-symptomatic stage. With aim of providing an early diagnosis, newborn screening (NBS) for SMA using real-time PCR assay with dried blood spots (DBS) wa...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0679160d-f95b-5109-8342-54be87acfe21
- DOI
- 10.20944/preprints202302.0500.v1
