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Is the Spinal Muscular Atrophy gene found?

Three articles claim to have identified the spinal muscular atrophy gene, yet they do not appear to have enough in common to identify the same gene.

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Gilliam, T. Is the Spinal Muscular Atrophy gene found?. Nat Med 1, 124–127 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0295-124

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