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A 77-year-old woman and a preserved speech variant among the Danish Rett patients with mutations in MECP2.
Brain & development - 1 Dec 2001
Nielsen J B, Ravn K, Schwartz M
Abstract excerpt
Two cases with Rett syndrome (RTT) are presented. One of these is a 77-year-old woman. The occurrence of elderly women with diagnosed RTT is sparse; this may be due to the fact that the clinical traits of RTT often are atypical in adult women and the information about early childhood limited. The finding of mutations in the MECP2 gene in many patients with RTT has provided us with a tool for verification of...
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