Rett Syndrome: A History of Research and Therapeutic Outlooks
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...Syndrome research. With a shared passion for facilitating research and discovery, Addgene and RSRT have...approaches.
What is Rett Syndrome?
Caused by a mutation in the methyl-CpG binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene...Zoghbi's lab discovered the first disease-causing mutations in the MECP2 gene leading to Rett Syndrome (Amir... regulate transcription (Baker et al., 2013). Mutations that affect this interaction to varying degrees...determine the clinical severity of different MECP2 mutations. More recently, the Bird lab found that only a... human MECP2 locus and MECP2 protein, showing mutations corrected by CRISPR/Cas9 in wild-type human iPSCs... exciting and promising results for repairing mutations in models of neurological disease. Klaus Rajewsky...