Documentation - Liens utiles - Par maladie - Spinal muscular atrophies

Other names : type I spinal muscular atrophy, Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, type II spinal muscular atrophy, type III spinal muscular atrophy, Kugelberg-Welander disease, type IV spinal muscular atrophy, ISMA (infantile spinal muscular atrophy), SMA (spinal muscular atrophy).

• Families of spinal muscular atrophy

Canadian site - for the families coping with spinal muscular atrophies.

• Further information : www.fsma.org

• Spinal muscular atrophies- Family Village information

Site of the University of Wisconsin Waisman Center aimed specifically at patients and their families: provides access to information on specific associations or foundations, as well as to personal pages, to the OMIM ("On Line Mendelian Inheritance in Man") site or to the American NORD ("National Organization for Rare Disorders") database on rare diseases.

• Further information : www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/lib_spma.htm

• The Jennifer Trust for Spinal Muscular atrophy

The Jennifer Trust is the UK support group for people with Spinal Muscular Atrophy and for their families.

• Further information : www.jtsma.org.uk/

• SMANet

• Further information : www.affari.com/smanet/

• ASI-OMIM

Page on type 1 spinal muscular atrophy on the OMIM site.

• Further information : www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=253300

• SMA II-Intermediate Spinal Muscular Atrophy -MDA - USA

• Further information : www.mdausa.org/disease/sma2.html

• SMA III-OMIM