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Werdnig-Hoffmann Disease
A childhood spinal muscular atrophy that is a severe form and is characterized by muscle weakness onset from birth to six months of age, the inability to sit unassisted and that is caused by a mutation or deletion in the
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A childhood spinal muscular atrophy that is a severe form and is characterized by muscle weakness onset from birth to six months of age, the inability to sit unassisted and that is caused by a mutation or deletion in the
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