Cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 deficiency disorder: clinical review

HE Olson, ST Demarest, EM Pestana-Knight… - Pediatric …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) deficiency disorder (CDD) is a
developmental encephalopathy caused by pathogenic variants in the gene CDKL5. This …

People with intellectual disability: what do we know about adulthood and life expectancy?

AMW Coppus - Developmental disabilities research reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Increases in the life expectancy of people with Intellectual Disability have followed similar
trends to those found in the general population. With the exception of people with severe …

Rett syndrome: insights into genetic, molecular and circuit mechanisms

JPK Ip, N Mellios, M Sur - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurological disorder caused by mutations in the gene
encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2). Almost two decades of research into RTT …

Rett syndrome: a neurological disorder with metabolic components

SM Kyle, N Vashi, MJ Justice - Open biology, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurological disorder caused by mutations in the X-linked gene
methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2), a ubiquitously expressed transcriptional regulator …

Methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) mutation type is associated with disease severity in Rett syndrome

VA Cuddapah, RB Pillai, KV Shekar, JB Lane… - Journal of medical …, 2014 - jmg.bmj.com
Background Rett syndrome (RTT), a neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily affects girls,
is characterised by a period of apparently normal development until 6–18 months of age …

Specific mutations in Methyl-CpG-Binding Protein 2 confer different severity in Rett syndrome

JL Neul, P Fang, J Barrish, J Lane, EB Caeg… - Neurology, 2008 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To determine if a relationship exists between the clinical features of Rett
syndrome, an X-linked dominant neurodevelopmental disorder, and specific mutations in …

The role of prenatal, obstetric and neonatal factors in the development of autism

L Dodds, DB Fell, S Shea, BA Armson, AC Allen… - Journal of autism and …, 2011 - Springer
We conducted a linked database cohort study of infants born between 1990 and 2002 in
Nova Scotia, Canada. Diagnoses of autism were identified from administrative databases …

Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study of trofinetide in pediatric Rett syndrome

DG Glaze, JL Neul, WE Kaufmann, E Berry-Kravis… - Neurology, 2019 - AAN Enterprises
Objective To determine safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetics of trofinetide and evaluate
its efficacy in female children/adolescents with Rett syndrome (RTT), a debilitating …

RettBASE: Rett syndrome database update

R Krishnaraj, G Ho, J Christodoulou - Human mutation, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X‐linked progressive neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily
affects females. Mutations in the MECP2 gene have been attributed as the major genetic …

Widespread changes in dendritic and axonal morphology in Mecp2‐mutant mouse models of rett syndrome: Evidence for disruption of neuronal networks

PV Belichenko, EE Wright… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations in the X‐linked
gene MECP2. Girls with RTT show dramatic changes in brain function, but relatively few …