Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE The interval containing the SMA gene has been defined by linkage analysis as 5qcen-D5S435-SMA-D5S557-5qter. 8088834 1994
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE SMA is caused by the loss of survival motor neuron-1 (SMN1). 16580882 2006
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Infantile spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) caused by homozygous SMN1 gene deletions/mutations is characterized by neuronal loss and axonopathy of motor neurons. 20583119 2010
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene is an SMA-determining gene and SMN2 represents an SMA-modifying gene. 21705024 2011
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our results emphasize the importance of performing a detailed carrier study in SMA parents with two SMN1 copies. 23799925 2014
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 AlteredExpression disease BEFREE We performed a systematic analysis of SMN expression in primary fibroblasts and EBV-transformed lymphoblasts from seven SMA patients with varying clinical severity and different SMN1 genotypes to determine expression differences in two accessible tissues (skin and blood). 21610752 2011
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE It is based on sole contribution of survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) exon 7 to SMA pathogenesis. 21338334 2011
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a degenerative motor neuron disorder resulting from homozygous loss of the SMN1 gene. 11704813 2001
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Deletion or mutation of SMN1 coupled with the inability of SMN2 to compensate for the loss of SMN1 due to exon 7 skipping causes spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), one of the leading genetic diseases of children. 31323435 2020
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE The assay has been optimized and tested in 48 healthy controls, 20 known patients with SMA, 12 carriers (one SMN1 copy), and 8 amniotic fluids suspected of having SMA for whom we had determined the SMN1/SMN2 deletion by an additional PCR-RFLP method. 20025960 2010
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Our research elucidated the genetic load and SMN gene variants that are present in the Chinese population, and could serve as the basis for a nationwide program of genetic counseling and clinical/prenatal diagnosis to prevent SMA in China. 20442745 2010
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder most commonly caused by a deletion or mutation in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene, which leads to insufficient levels of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. 30027400 2018
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Design, Setting, and Patients A total of 87 patients and 132 parents from 77 families with SMA were screened for SMN1 mutations. 17296838 2007
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of infant mortality worldwide, is characterised by the homozygous loss of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. 28389270 2017
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Increasing SMN protein production by promoting SMN2 exon 7 inclusion could be a therapeutic approach for SMA. 17924536 2008
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here, we show that valproic acid increases levels of exon 7-containing SMN transcript and SMN protein in type I SMA patient-derived fibroblast cell lines. 14595654 2003
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE SMA is caused by mutations in the survival motor neuron gene (<i>SMN1</i>), leading to reduced levels of SMN protein in the CNS. 29552580 2018
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE These findings demonstrate how rare variants influence pre-mRNA splicing of SMN and reveal the functional influence of c.863G>T (r.835_*3del, p.Gly279Glufs*5) variant in patients with SMA. 26419278 2016
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE In addition, analysis of cloned DNA segments from within the SMA candidate region has identified the presence of a novel, chromosome 5-specific, low copy repeated sequence which is distributed throughout the region containing the SMA gene as well as in at least four other regions of chromosome 5. 8401498 1993
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE However, the copy number of SMN1 and SMN2 is highly variable, and one in 60 adults worldwide are SMA carriers. 26510457 2015
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a severe and clinically-heterogeneous motor neuron disease caused, in most cases, by a homozygous mutation in the SMN1 gene. 29742241 2018
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited neuromuscular disease resulting from a recessive mutation in the SMN1 gene. 27331400 2016
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE After a first assisted pregnancy, an SMA child with a homozygous deletion of the SMN1 gene was born. 11821106 2002
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 GeneticVariation disease BEFREE Patients with spinal muscular atrophy suffer from fatal degeneration of motoneurons because of mutations and deletions of the gene for the SMN protein. 12397076 2003
CUI: C0026847
Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
0.700 Biomarker disease BEFREE Exon 8 of SMN1 was amplified in 98% of normal cells and in none of the SMA-affected leukocytes. 14764971 2004