Research suggests new cause to blame for spinal muscular atrophy

Research suggests new cause to blame for spinal muscular atrophy

Medicalxpress.com | June 21, 2012

Over 15 years ago, researchers linked a defect in a gene called survival motor neuron — or SMN — with the fatal disease spinal muscular atrophy. Because SMN had a role in assembling the intracellular machinery that processes genetic material, it was assumed that faulty processing was to blame.

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