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 |
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
|
0.700 |
Biomarker
|
disease |
BEFREE |
SMA is caused by the loss of survival motor neuron-1 (SMN1).
|
16580882 |
2006 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |