Article
Level of purposeful hand function as a marker of clinical severity in Rett syndrome.
Developmental medicine and child neurology - 1 Sept 2010
Downs Jenny, Bebbington Ami, Jacoby Peter, Williams Anne-Marie, Ghosh Soumya, Kaufmann Walter E, Leonard Helen
Abstract excerpt
AIM: We investigated relationships between hand function and genotype and aspects of phenotype in Rett syndrome. METHOD: Video assessment in naturalistic settings was supplemented by parent-reported data in a cross-sectional study of 144 females with a mean age of 14 years 10 months (SD 7 y 10 mo; range 2 y-31 y 10 mo), 110 of whom had a mutation of the methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. Ordinal logistic...
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