A cell system for phenotypic screening of modifiers of SMN2 gene expression and function.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by homozygous inactivation of the SMN1 gene and reduced levels of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. Since higher copy numbers of the nearly identical SMN2 gene reduce disease severity, to date most efforts to devel...

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Main Authors: Darrick K Li, Sarah Tisdale, Jorge Espinoza-Derout, Luciano Saieva, Francesco Lotti, Livio Pellizzoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3744461?pdf=render