Spinal Muscular Atrophy
... Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic, motor neuron disease that is the second most common neuromuscular disorder of childhood, second only to Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy. It is characterized b...

Kennedy''s Disease Information Page
... Kennedy's disease is an inherited motor neuron disease that affects males. It is one of a group of disorders called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Onset of the disease is usually between the ages ...

Spinal Muscular Atrophy Information Page
... Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic, motor neuron disease caused by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord. The disorder causes weakness and wasting of the voluntary muscl...

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
... Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy is a disorder of specialized nerve cells that control muscle movement (motor neurons). The condition, which mainly affects males, is characterized by muscle weakness...

Spinal muscular atrophy
... Spinal muscular atrophy affects the control of muscle movement and is caused by a loss of specialized nerve cells (motor neurons) in the spinal cord and the part of the brain that is connected to the ...

Genes and Disease: Spinal muscular atrophy
... Death of spinal motor neurons and subsequent muscle paralysis characterize Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a hereditary neuromuscular disorder that is the most common genetic cause of childhood fatalit...