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Validation of a high resolution NGS method for detecting spinal muscular atrophy carriers among phase 3 participants in the 1000 Genomes Project

BACKGROUND: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common pan-ethnic cause of early childhood death due to mutations in a single gene, SMN1. Most chromosome 5 homologs have a functional gene and dysfunctional copy, SMN2, with a single synonymous base substitution that results in faulty RNA splici...

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Autores principales: Larson, Jessica L., Silver, Ari J., Chan, Dalin, Borroto, Carlos, Spurrier, Brett, Silver, Lee M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4625734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26510457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12881-015-0246-2