Spinal muscular atrophy: mutations, testing, and clinical relevance

MC Keinath, DE Prior, TW Prior - The Application of Clinical …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
… of function of the survival motor neuron gene SMN1 on 5q13 but … genetic and phenotypic
analysis in Spanish spinal muscularDeletions of the survival motor neuron gene in unaffected …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence, incidence and carrier frequency of 5q–linked spinal muscular atrophy–a literature review

IEC Verhaart, A Robertson, IJ Wilson… - Orphanet journal of rare …, 2017 - Springer
… in the SMN1 gene, resulting in motor neuron degeneration and … In our analysis, we calculated
the percentages in two ways … when the genetic cause for SMA, deletion of the SMN1 gene, …

[PDF][PDF] Homozygous deletion of exon 7 in SMN1 gene without phenotypic features of spinal muscular atrophy.

M Ghanei, SH Sadat Fatemi, M Soudyab… - Neurology …, 2022 - neurology-asia.org
Characterization of survival motor neuron (SMNT) gene deletions in asymptomatic
carriers of spinal muscular atrophy. Hum Mol Genet 1996;5(3):359-65. doi: 10.1093/ hmg/5.3.359. …

[HTML][HTML] Muscle-specific SMN reduction reveals motor neuron–independent disease in spinal muscular atrophy models

JK Kim, NN Jha, Z Feng, MR Faleiro… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
… to the skeletal muscle of symptomatic mice proved beneficial. … to animals harboring an
inducible Smn deletion allele (Smn F7 ) … We therefore quantified and characterized motor neuron

Spinal muscular atrophy

E Mercuri, CJ Sumner, F Muntoni, BT Darras… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
… to reduced expression of survival motor neuron protein (SMN)… characterized by impairments
of development that affect the … the relatively high carrier frequency of deletions in SMN1 (0.98…

[HTML][HTML] Spinal muscular atrophy

TW Prior, ME Leach, E Finanger - 2020 - europepmc.org
Gene-targeted deletion/duplication analysis to determine the … SMA is characterized by muscle
weakness and atrophy … horn cells in the spinal cord (ie, lower motor neurons) and the brain …

Review of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) for prenatal and pediatric genetic counselors

A Carré, C Empey - Journal of genetic counseling, 2016 - Springer
… changes of the SMN1 (survival motor neuron 1) gene. Please … analysis was used to identify
the SMN1 gene, deletion … on medical management for symptomatic patients with SMA. …

Motor neuron biology and disease: a current perspective on infantile-onset spinal muscular atrophy

NN Jha, JK Kim, UR Monani - Future neurology, 2018 - Future Medicine
… of the ubiquitously expressed survival motor neuron (SMN) … % of all patients, become
symptomatic between 6 and 18 months … characterization of a spinal muscular atrophy-determining …

[HTML][HTML] What genetics has told us and how it can inform future experiments for spinal muscular atrophy, a perspective

AJ Blatnik III, VL McGovern, AHM Burghes - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
characterized by motor neuron loss and subsequent atrophy … function mutation or deletion
of the SMN1 gene, but retention … to improve outcomes of symptomatic SMA patients. Together …

Complete sequencing of the SMN2 gene in SMA patients detects SMN gene deletion junctions and variants in SMN2 that modify the SMA phenotype

C Ruhno, VL McGovern, MR Avenarius, PJ Snyder… - Human genetics, 2019 - Springer
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive motorsurvival motor neuron one gene
(SMN1) and retention of the SMN2 … Upon analysis of the read alignments in this region, we found …