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Newborn Screening for SMA - Results After Two Years of a Large Pilot Project 

2020-08-10

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><underline>Background</underline>: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in childhood. Since motor neuron injury is mostly not reversible, early diagnosis and treatment are essential to prevent major disability. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of newborn screening (NBS) for SMA on clinical outcome. <underline>Methods</underline>: The p...

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Literature Corpus work: 78eb9e23-d688-5fe8-9826-3faba50f154b
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-53392/v1

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