SMN1 deletions among Singaporean patients with spinal muscular atrophy

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-77

  Lai, Angeline H M ^a,b   Tan, E S ^a,b   Law, H Y ^b   Yoon, C S ^b   Ng, I S L ^b  

^a KK Women's and Children's Hospital ^*

^b KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Genetic services; Kugelberg welander disease; Neuromuscular diseases; Prenatal diagnosis; Werdnig Hoffman disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BIRTH; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SURVIVAL MOTOR NEURON 1 GENE;

EID: 15044364720     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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