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Werdnig-Hoffman disease

DEFINITIONS OF: Werdnig-Hoffman disease

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n autosomal recessive disease in which the degeneration of spinal nerve cells and brain nerve cells leads to atrophy of skeletal muscles and flaccid paralysis; death usually occurs in early childhood

Type of:
autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease
a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome
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