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Rett Syndrome: Reaching for Clinical Trials.
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics - 1 Jul 2015
Pozzo-Miller Lucas, Pati Sandipan, Percy Alan K
Abstract excerpt
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a syndromic autism spectrum disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in MECP2. The methyl CpG binding protein 2 binds methylcytosine and 5-hydroxymethycytosine at CpG sites in promoter regions of target genes, controlling their transcription by recruiting co-repressors and co-activators. Several preclinical studies in mouse models have identified rational molecular targets for drug...
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