INFANTILE progressive spinal muscular atrophy (Werdnig–Hoffmann syndrome) has been reported as occurring in 7 pairs of twins. 1–6 In only 4 of these cases were the twins thought to be monozygotic in ...
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What Is SMA Type 1 and Could It Affect You? Jesy Nelson's Twin Daughters Were Just Diagnosed With It
Spinal muscular atrophy is a rare genetic disorder causing progressive muscle weakness, now in focus after Jesy Nelson shared her twins' diagnosis.
Early diagnosis and treatment of SMA can limit disease progression in children and adults, extending life expectancy and improving QOL. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe genetic condition that ...
Introduction: Spinal muscular atrophies (SMAs) are a group of autosomal recessive disorders characterized by progressive lower motor neuron degeneration Several types have been identified, including ...
This study was carried out on 9 patients with myotonic dystrophy and 8 with slowly progressive nonmyotonic muscular dystrophy admitted to the Neurology Service at Duke University Hospital and the ...
Carrier screening for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)—a serious genetic disease affecting approximately 1 in 10,000 infants that causes progressive muscle weakness and death—should be made available to ...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most common muscle disease in children and is passed on by X-linked recessive inheritance. Characteristic is a progressive muscular atrophy. Researchers have ...
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