[Hypothesizing that this familial amyotrophy might be related to autosomal dominant distal spinal muscular atrophy type V(dSMA-V) that is characterized by prominent involvement of the distal upper extremities, we tested the index case for glycyl tRNA synthetase and Berardinelli-Seip congenital lipodystrophy (BSCL2) N88S and S90L gene mutations (by direct sequencing) that are involved in the development of dSMA-V phenotype.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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