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Rett syndrome: clinical and epidemiological aspects in a Brazilian institution.
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria - 1 Dec 2003
Pozzi Cristina M, Rosemberg Sergio
Abstract excerpt
Rett syndrome (RS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, preferentially found in females and specifically involving the functions on which intelligence and its expression depend--learning, hand use and speech--leaving many others intact. Mutations have been identified at Xq28 on the MECP2 gene (methyl-CpG 2), which selectively silences the expression of other genes whose location is still unknown. This is a study on...
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