Article
Mutation analysis of the MECP2 gene in British and Italian Rett syndrome females.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Jan 2001
Vacca M, Filippini F, Budillon A, Rossi V, Mercadante G, Manzati E, Gualandi F, Bigoni S, Trabanelli C, Pini G, Calzolari E, Ferlini A, Meloni I, Hayek G, Zappella M, Renieri A, D'Urso M, D'Esposito M, MacDonald F, Kerr A, Dhanjal S, Hultén M
Abstract excerpt
Rett syndrome is an X-linked dominant neurological disorder, which appears to be the commonest genetic cause of profound combined intellectual and physical disability in Caucasian females. Recently, this syndrome has been associated with mutations of the MECP2 gene, a transcriptional repressor of...
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