The period prevalence of motor neurone disease was 5.02/100 000 with a mean age of onset of 59.4 (S.D. 12.9) years. One 66-year-old male was found to have the X-linked bulbospinal muscular atrophy mutation. A single, definite first-degree relative pair was identified, of whom only ...
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a prominent genetic disease of infant mortality, is caused by low levels of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein owing to deletions or mutations of the SMN1 gene. SMN2, a nearly identical copy of SMN1 present in humans, cannot compensate for the loss of SMN1 ...
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