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Molecular screening of MECP2 gene in a cohort of Lebanese patients suspected with Rett syndrome: report on a mild case with a novel indel mutation.
Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR - 1 Apr 2012
Corbani S, Chouery E, Fayyad J, Fawaz A, El Tourjuman O, Badens C, Lacoste C, Delague V, Megarbane A
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BACKGROUND: Rett syndrome (RTT), an X-linked, dominant, neurodevelopment disorder represents 10% of female subjects with profound intellectual disability. Mutations in the MECP2 gene are responsible for up to 95% of the classical RTT cases, and nearly 500 different mutations distributed throughou...
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