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Quiz: Do You Know These Key SMA Facts?

Medically reviewed by Evelyn O. Berman, M.D.
Written by Brooke Dulka, Ph.D.
Posted on September 16, 2021

If you’re living with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) — or you have a loved one with the condition — it’s likely that you’ve studied every piece of information you can find about the disease.

To check your SMA knowledge, consider taking this five-question quiz to see if you know these facts and stats about spinal muscular atrophy.

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Want to learn more about SMA? Check out our Spinal Muscular Atrophy News section.

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References
  1. Spinal Muscular Atrophy — Lancet
  2. Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Molecular Genetics and Diagnostics — Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics
  3. A Positive Modifier of Spinal Muscular Atrophy in the SMN2 Gene — The American Journal of Human Genetics
  4. Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2008 — National Vital Statistics Reports: From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System
  5. Cystic Fibrosis — National Organization for Rare Disorders
  6. Prevalence, Incidence and Carrier Frequency of 5q-Linked Spinal Muscular Atrophy — A Literature Review — Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  7. Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) — Johns Hopkins Medicine
  8. Incidence, Prevalence, and Gene Frequency Studies of Chronic Childhood Spinal Muscular Atrophy — Journal of Medical Genetics
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