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Genetic Homogeneity Between Childhood-Onset and Adult-Onset Autosomal Recessive Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Lancet 346:741-742, Brahe,C.,et al, 1995
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Article Abstract
Molecular diagnosis of childhood proximal spinal muscular atrophy has been enhanced by the discovery of the survival motor neuron(SMN)gene,which is absent or truncated in 98-6%of patients.To determine whether deletion analysis of the SMN gene may also be diagnostic for adult-onset disease,we studied six patients and found deletions in all.This finding will facilitate the diagnosis of adult-onset spinal muscular atrophy,and provides evidence for genetic homogeneity between the clinically diverse adult and childhood forms of the disease.
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