Clinical and molecular analysis of spinal muscular atrophy in Brazilian patients

Clinical and molecular analysis of spinal muscular atrophy in Brazilian patients

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the second most common lethal autosomal recessive disorder, has an incidence of 1:10,000 newborns. SMA is divided into acute (Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, type I), intermediate (type II) and juvenile forms (Kugelberg-Welander disease, type III). The gene of all three form...

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Main Authors: C.A. Kim, M.R. Passos-Bueno, S.K. Marie, A. Cerqueira, U. Conti, M.J. Marques-Dias, C.H. Gonzalez, M. Zatz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 1999-12-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000400005

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