Spinal muscular atrophy in black South Africans: Concordance with the universal SMN1 genotype

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 165-168

  Wilmshurst, Jo M ^a   Reynolds, L ^a   Van Toorn, R ^a   Leisegang, F ^a   Henderson, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Black South Africans; Spinal muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANTERIOR HORN CELL DISEASE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOTONEURON; NEGRO; NEUROLOGY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0036705947     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2002.620210.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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