Rett Syndrome
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... of treatments and cures for Rett Syndrome and related MECP2 disorders. The RSRT has a comprehensive, ...diagnostic criteria, defined as the presence of relatively normal early development, regression with a loss...The MECP2 protein is a global transcriptional regulator of thousands of genes and studies have suggested...is not clear, however, the ability to bind to methylated DNA and recruit known co-repressors or other ...modifiers suggests the major function of MECP2 is to regulate gene expression either locally or globally. The...NID demonstrating the importance of binding to methylated DNA and the recruitment of the NCoR complex for... MECP2 null alleles or common mutations that recapitulate Rett syndrome in humans. MECP2 knockout rats...