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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Genética
1999-12-01
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| Series: | Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000400005 |