A new biomarker candidate for spinal muscular atrophy: Identification of a peripheral blood cell population capable of monitoring the level of survival motor neuron protein

• Noriko Otsuki,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Genetics, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 10-22 Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0054, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0848-6458

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• Reiko Arakawa,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Genetics, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 10-22 Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0054, Japan

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• Kaori Kaneko,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Affiliated Field of Medical Genetics, Division of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Graduate Course of Medicine, Graduate School of Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 10-22 Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0054, Japan

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• Ryoko Aoki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Medical Genetics, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 10-22 Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0054, Japan

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• Masayuki Arakawa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Laboratory of Virology, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, 5-14-23 Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-0021, Japan

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• Kayoko Saito

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: saito.kayoko@twmu.ac.jp

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Genetics, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 10-22 Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0054, Japan, Affiliated Field of Medical Genetics, Division of Biomedical Engineering and Science, Graduate Course of Medicine, Graduate School of Tokyo Women’s Medical University, 10-22 Kawadacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0054, Japan

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