Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1: A multicenter retrospective study

Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress type 1 (SMARD1) is a rare autosomal recessive neuromuscular disorder characterized by progressive motor and respiratory decline during the first year of life. Early and late-onset cases have recently been reported, although not meeting the established diagnostic criteria, these cases have been genotyped. We thus conducted a national multicenter observational retrospective study to determine the...