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What’s Up Doc? New therapies for spinal muscular atrophy patients

Q: Is there a new treatment for spinal muscular atrophy?A: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a group of recessively inherited disorders (the patient must inherit a defective gene from both of their parents) that manifest as muscle weakness (for example affecting the patient’s ability to walk, and potentially affecting their ability to breath), occurring in up to one in every 10,000 people.

 

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