Article
Shared microbial community changes in female rats and humans with Rett syndrome
2019-12-17
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder predominantly caused by alterations of the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. The gut microbiome has been implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a regulator of disease severity. Although the gut microbiome has been previously characterized in humans with RTT, t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 886cb93b-b000-5170-ab94-35f2b540d2c1
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.19018/v1
