Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks
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...If you’re new to Rett Syndrome, this blog post describes the history of Rett Syndrome research, the role...MECP2 in Rett Syndrome
Rett Syndrome was first described in 1966 by Austrian physician, Andreas Rett, who...maturation (Tillotson & Bird, 2019) and is a global transcriptional regulator of thousands of genes. Studies have...have suggested roles in transcriptional repression, activity dependent de-repression, chromatin remodeling...groove of AT-rich DNA sequences to regulate transcription (Baker et al., 2013). Mutations that affect ...