Infantile Progressive Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Onset in infancy or even before birth. Symptoms include generalized muscle weakness, weak cry, trouble swallowing as well as sucking, and breathing distress, often with infant death. Loss of nerve cells in the spinal cord called motor neurons affects the part of the nervous system that controls voluntary muscle movement. Inherited by means of a recessive gene from both parents.
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