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Human genes for adult spinal muscular atrophy

Adult spinal muscular atrophy [DOID:0050529]

A survival motor neuron spinal muscular atrophy that is characterized by progressive muscular weakness and motor disability that typically presents in the third decade of life and has_material_basis_in mutations in the SMN1 or SMN2 genes that are required for the survival of motor neurons.

Synonyms:  adult spinal muscular atrophy,  DOID:0050529,  adult spinal muscular atrophies,  SMA4,  SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY, ADULT FORM ...

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The disease-gene associations are derived from automatic text mining of the biomedical literature, manually curated database annotations, cancer mutation data, and genome-wide association studies. The confidence of each association is signified by stars, where ★★★★★ is the highest confidence and ★☆☆☆☆ is the lowest.

Developed by Sune Frankild, Alexander Junge, Albert Pallejà, Dhouha Grissa, Kalliopi Tsafou, and Lars Juhl Jensen from the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.