Genetic Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Spinal Muscular Atrophy also known as SMA is a genetic disease affecting the part of the nervous system that controls the voluntary muscle movement. It can be passed down from parent to child. The major causes of SMA is a deficiency of a motor neuron protein called SMN. Mutation in the survival motor neuron gene 1. The symptoms of SMA are very sad a child is weak and has a delay in meeting feeding and breathing development milestones. There are four types of SMA, type 0 is the most severe it can happen to a child inside the mother and grow worse when their born. Type 1 is severe but not as severe as type 0 it can be present at the birth of the child. Type 2 is milder but still bad it contains muscle weakness. Type 3 is not bad at all but still