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Spinal muscular atrophies

Basil T Darras1

  • 1Division of Clinical Neurology, Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Fegan 11, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Pediatric Clinics of North America
|May 30, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
5q SMADubowitz diseaseKugelberg-Welander diseaseNon-5q SMAsSpinal muscular atrophySurvival of motor neuron proteinWerdnig-Hoffmann disease

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