| 41. | Polyglutamine repeat expansion in the AR is linked to spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy ( Kennedy's disease ).
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| 42. | He is remembered for describing Hoffmann's reflex and Werdnig Hoffmann disease ( now spinal muscular atrophy type 1 ).
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| 43. | Spinal muscular atrophy is linked to genetic mutations in the SMN1 ( Survival of Motor Neuron 1 ) gene.
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| 44. | In addition to birth defects, mercury poisoning causes neurological damage, with symptoms ranging from muscular atrophy to mental deterioration.
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| 45. | As with many genetic disorders, there is no known cure to any disorder of the spinal muscular atrophies group.
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| 46. | Once the virus enters in the bloodstream, it attacks the central nervous system, causing muscular atrophy, deformation, and sometimes death.
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| 47. | At least one poster child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a 6-year-old girl, in fact suffered from spinal muscular atrophy.
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| 48. | Many children with spinal muscular atrophy develop pectus excavatum due to the diaphragmatic breathing that is common with the disease.
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| 49. | In around 60 % of infants affected by type 1 spinal muscular atrophy, the drug also significantly improved motor function.
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| 50. | Spinal muscular atrophy manifests in various degrees of severity, which all have in common progressive muscle wasting and mobility impairment.
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