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Human genes for adult spinal muscular atrophy

Adult spinal muscular atrophy [DOID:0050529]

A 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 ...

Linkouts:  OMIM

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.

Currently maintained by Qingyao Huang at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Zurich. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.