PMID: 16506134Mar 1, 2006Paper

Rett syndrome: a diagnostic, clinical and molecular update

Revista de neurologia
M I Tejada

Abstract

Rett syndrome (RS) was first reported in 1966 and in 1999 it was discovered that it was associated to mutations in the MECP2 gene. In the last 5 years over 500 articles have been written on the subject, which is clear evidence of how complex and important this syndrome is. To present an updated summary of the topic in Spanish. RS is the second most common cause of mental retardation in females after Down syndrome, with an estimated prevalence of 1/15,000 girls in Europe. It is a syndrome involving progressive psychomotor deterioration, with autism, stereotypic movements of the hands, loss of acquired language and decreased cranial growth. It is a dominant X-linked pathology that is usually fatal in males and in which over 99% of cases involve de novo mutations. The MECP2 gene has four exons that code for two different isoforms of a protein that controls and regulates the activity of other genes by inhibiting their transcription. Molecular studies of the MECP2 gene have shown that the clinical phenotype of RS is far broader than the one initially described and has numerous variants, which may be either more or less severe, and there are even mutations in males and in other non-Rett phenotypes, as well as in cases of mental retar...Continue Reading

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