"Rett Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An inherited neurological developmental disorder that is associated with X-LINKED INHERITANCE and may be lethal in utero to hemizygous males. The affected female is normal until the age of 6-25 months when progressive loss of voluntary control of hand movements and communication skills; ATAXIA; SEIZURES; autistic behavior; intermittent HYPERVENTILATION; and HYPERAMMONEMIA appear. (From Menkes, Textbook of Child Neurology, 5th ed, p199)
| Descriptor ID |
D015518
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.597.606.643.455.937 C16.320.322.500.937 C16.320.400.525.937
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| Concept/Terms |
Rett Syndrome- Rett Syndrome
- Syndrome, Rett
- Cerebroatrophic Hyperammonemia
- Cerebroatrophic Hyperammonemias
- Hyperammonemia, Cerebroatrophic
- Hyperammonemias, Cerebroatrophic
- Autism, Dementia, Ataxia, and Loss of Purposeful Hand Use
- Rett's Disorder
- Rett's Syndrome
- Retts Syndrome
- Syndrome, Rett's
- Autism-Dementia-Ataxia-Loss of Purposeful Hand Use Syndrome
- Autism Dementia Ataxia Loss of Purposeful Hand Use Syndrome
- Rett Disorder
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| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rett Syndrome" by people in Profiles.
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Platelet defects in congenital variant of Rett syndrome patients with FOXG1 mutations or reduced expression due to a position effect at 14q12. Eur J Hum Genet. 2013 Dec; 21(12):1349-55.
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The core FOXG1 syndrome phenotype consists of postnatal microcephaly, severe mental retardation, absent language, dyskinesia, and corpus callosum hypogenesis. J Med Genet. 2011 Jun; 48(6):396-406.
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