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SUBMITTER: Simard LR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3273325 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Simard L R LR Bélanger M-C MC Morissette S S Wride M M Prior T W TW Swoboda K J KJ
Neurology 20070201 6
<h4>Objective</h4>To determine whether survival motor neuron (SMN) expression was stable over time.<h4>Methods</h4>We developed a multiplex real-time reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR assay to quantify SMN transcripts in preclinical blood samples from 42 patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) drawn for three time points per patient; most blood samples were shipped to a centralized laboratory.<h4>Results</h4>We obtained a sufficient amount (9.7 +/- 5.6 microg) of good-quality total RNA, and RNA ...[more]