SMA

Spinal Muscular Atrophy is a rare and the second most fatal autosomal recessive genetic disorder with an incidence of 1 in 6000 to 1 in 10,000 births. Globally talking, SMA prevalence was reported in 19,343 cases in the year 2017 in the 7MM, and the US accounted for the highest number of cases approximately around ...

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic and neuromuscular condition which affects mainly children. It has several distinct types such as type 1 (Werdnig-Hoffmann disease), type 2 (Dubowitz disease), type 3 (Kugelberg-Welander disease) and type 4 (Adult onset). SMN1 (Survival Motor Neuron 1) is the primary ge...