SMN1 and proximal spinal muscular atrophy: While there are currently some reports of SMA patients with homozygous deletion of SMN1 exon 8 (Behera and Kumar 2020; Maiti, Bhattacharya, and Yadav 2012), suggesting that exon 8 is associated with SMA, we identified a 30‐year‐old unaffected female carrying homozygous deletion of SMN1 exon 8, which does not support this notion.