Molecular diagnosis and genetic counseling for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

C Rouzier, A Chaussenot, V Paquis-Flucklinger - Archives de Pédiatrie, 2020 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular autosomal recessive disorder caused by
bi-allelic pathogenic variants in the SMN1 gene. 95% of … Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a …

Spinal muscular atrophy: mutations, testing, and clinical relevance

MC Keinath, DE Prior, TW Prior - … Application of Clinical Genetics, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a heritable neuromuscular disorder that causes degeneration
… Positive SMA NBS results necessitate genetic counseling for the families; however, if the …

[HTML][HTML] Spinal muscular atrophy

TW Prior, ME Leach, E Finanger - 2020 - europepmc.org
… information if the diagnosis of SMA is confirmed on molecular genetic testing. The number …
with genetic risk assessment and the use of family history and genetic testing to clarify genetic

[HTML][HTML] Spinal muscular atrophy diagnosis and carrier screening from genome sequencing data

X Chen, A Sanchis-Juan, CE French, AJ Connell… - Genetics in …, 2020 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), an autosomal recessive … -wide genetic testing strategy will
be feasible with a single test. … genetic test will help facilitate the integration of more genetic

Spinal muscular atrophy in the treatment era

MA Waldrop, BH Elsheikh - Neurologic Clinics, 2020 - neurologic.theclinics.com
… The term spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is used to encompass a diverse group of … by
neurology at ∼5.5 months of age, where SMA genetic testing was sent and was positive (SMN1 0, …

Spinal muscular atrophy

E Mercuri, CJ Sumner, F Muntoni, BT Darras… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
SMA prompts genetic testing or from population-based newborn screening (see section
Screening, … a patient with suspected SMA undergoes genetic testing as the initial diagnostic step. …

Management of spinal muscular atrophy in the adult population

N Rad, H Cai, MD Weiss - Muscle & Nerve, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
genetics and natural history of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA… This review will focus on the
management of the adult SMA … be offered genetic counseling to discuss risk of transmission …

Advances in newborn screening and presymptomatic diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy

M Jędrzejowska - Degenerative Neurological and Neuromuscular …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Spinal muscular atrophy is associated with mutations in the SMN1 gene (SMA5q), and it is
… Currently, the diagnostics of SMA are based entirely on genetic testing. Citation5 The most …

Universal Newborn Screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy

M Oskoui, T Dangouloff, L Servais - JAMA pediatrics, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
… Newborn screening (NBS) for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has … However, not all newborns
identified with SMA will develop … While genetic confirmation of SMA is relatively easy and …

[HTML][HTML] Gene therapy for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA): a review of current challenges and safety considerations for Onasemnogene Abeparvovec (zolgensma)

T Ogbonmide, R Rathore, SB Rangrej, S Hutchinson… - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… to bringing awareness to Spinal Muscular Atrophy. We found the first gene therapy for SMA
to be onasemnogene, directly providing the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene to produce …