Title: | Advances in SMN1-related proximal spinal muscular atrophy |
Journal : | Avancées de la recherche |
Authors: | Masingue M, Author ; Myoinfo, Author ; Lefebvre S, Validator ; André C, Validator |
Material Type: | AFM Publication |
Publisher: | AFM-TELETHON, 06/2022 |
Series: | Savoir & Comprendre |
Size: | 46 p |
Languages: | English |
Abstract: |
SMN1-related proximal spinal muscular atrophy is a type of proximal spinal muscular atrophy, a rare group of genetic diseases causing degeneration of the nerve cells conveying, from the spinal cord to the muscles, messages ordering movement: the peripheral motor neurons. A decrease in the number of muscle fibres, which cannot survive without innervation, causes a lack of strength and muscle wasting (muscular atrophy). There are four types of SMN1-related proximal spinal muscular atrophy, according to age of onset and severity of the signs.
> SMN1 gene-related proximal spinal muscular atrophy > Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) > Spinal muscular atrophy 5q > Infantile spinal muscular atrophy (ISMA) > ISMA type I and II > Werdnig-Hoffmann disease > ISMA type III > Kugelberg-Welander disease > ISMA type IV |
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