What is Spinal Muscular Atrophy?Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease that affects the nervous system and muscles. It is caused by a deletion or mutation of the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. This gene produces a protein that is essential to the function of the motor neurons, the nerve cells that control muscle movement. Without enough SMN protein, these motor neurons cannot...
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