grants from The National Key Research and Development Program of China (No.2016YFC0901505);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81500979);CAMS Initiative for Innovative Medicine (CAMS-I2M-1-008);Central Research Institutes of Basic Research and Public Service Special Operations (No.2016ZX310182-6);a SpecialFund for Capital Health Research and Development (No.2011-1008-03);the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (No.5163028).
Background: Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by homozygous deletion or compound heterozygous mutation of survival motor neuron gene 1 (SMN1), which is the key to diagnose SMA. The study was to establish and eva...