Is spinal muscular atrophy the result of
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Michael Briese; Behrooz Esmaeili; David B. Sattelle
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Article
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2005
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The hereditary neurodegenerative disease spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) with childhood onset is one of the most common genetic causes of infant mortality. The disease is characterized by selective loss of spinal cord motor neurons leading to muscle atrophy and is the result of mutations