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
Spinal muscular atrophy linked to chromosome 5q (SMA) is a recessive, progressive,
neuromuscular disorder caused by bi-allelic mutations in the SMN1 gene, resulting in motor …

Genomic Variability in the Survival Motor Neuron Genes (SMN1 and SMN2): Implications for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Phenotype and Therapeutics Development

MER Butchbach - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a leading genetic cause of infant death worldwide that is
characterized by loss of spinal motor neurons leading to muscle weakness and atrophy …

Presymptomatic diagnosis of spinal muscular atrophy through newborn screening

YH Chien, SC Chiang, WC Weng, NC Lee, CJ Lin… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective To demonstrate the feasibility of presymptomatic diagnosis of spinal muscular
atrophy (SMA) through newborn screening (NBS). Study design We performed a screening …

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
Purpose Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), caused by loss of the SMN1 gene, is a leading
cause of early childhood death. Due to the near identical sequences of SMN1 and SMN2 …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive SMN1 and SMN2 profiling for spinal muscular atrophy analysis using long-read PacBio HiFi sequencing

X Chen, J Harting, E Farrow, I Thiffault… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Spinal muscular atrophy, a leading cause of early infant death, is caused by bi-allelic
mutations of SMN1. Sequence analysis of SMN1 is challenging due to high sequence …

Spinal muscular atrophy: from gene discovery to clinical trials

DK Nurputra, PS Lai, NIF Harahap… - Annals of human …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a common neuromuscular disorder with autosomal
recessive inheritance, resulting in the degeneration of motor neurons. The incidence of the …

Molecular characterization and copy number of SMN1, SMN2 and NAIP in Chinese patients with spinal muscular atrophy and unrelated healthy controls

P Fang, L Li, J Zeng, WJ Zhou, WQ Wu… - BMC Musculoskeletal …, 2015 - Springer
Background Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by SMN1 dysfunction, and the copy
number of SMN2 and NAIP can modify the phenotype of SMA. The aim of this study was to …

Genetics of low spinal muscular atrophy carrier frequency in sub‐Saharan Africa

M Sangaré, B Hendrickson, HA Sango… - Annals of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is one of the most common severe hereditary
diseases of infancy and early childhood in North America, Europe, and Asia. SMA is usually …

Detection of SMN1 to SMN2 gene conversion events and partial SMN1 gene deletions using array digital PCR

DL Stabley, J Holbrook, M Scavina, TO Crawford… - neurogenetics, 2021 - Springer
Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a leading genetic cause of infant death worldwide,
is an early-onset motor neuron disease characterized by loss of α-motor neurons and …

Novel Alu-mediated deletions of the SMN1 gene were identified by ultra-long read sequencing technology in patients with spinal muscular atrophy

J Bai, Y Qu, S OuYang, H Jiao, Y Wang, J Li… - Neuromuscular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disease caused by biallelic variants of
the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. In this study, our aim was to make a molecular …