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Spinal Muscular Atrophy Life Expectancy

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a diseased distinguished by loss of motor function or muscle atrophy because of the absence of SMN1 gene or the Survival Motor Neuron 1. This SMN1 gene predetermines survival of the SMN protein which is very important to the survival of the nerve cells of the spinal cord which is […]