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Spinal Muscular Atrophy in the Black South African Population: A Matter of Rearrangement?
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder, characterized by muscle atrophy and impaired mobility. A homozygous deletion of survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1), exon 7 is the main cause of SMA in ~94% of patients worldwide, but only accounts for 51% of South African (SA) black patients. SM...
Autores principales: | Vorster, Elana, Essop, Fahmida B., Rodda, John L., Krause, Amanda |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033609/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32117462 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.00054 |
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