Revealing the complexity of a monogenic disease: rett syndrome exome sequencing.

Revealing the complexity of a monogenic disease: rett syndrome exome sequencing.

Rett syndrome (OMIM#312750) is a monogenic disorder that may manifest as a large variety of phenotypes ranging from very severe to mild disease. Since there is a weak correlation between the mutation type in the Xq28 disease-gene MECP2/X-inactivation status and phenotypic variability, we used this d...

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Main Authors: Elisa Grillo, Caterina Lo Rizzo, Laura Bianciardi, Veronica Bizzarri, Margherita Baldassarri, Ottavia Spiga, Simone Furini, Claudio De Felice, Cinzia Signorini, Silvia Leoncini, Alessandra Pecorelli, Lucia Ciccoli, Maria Antonietta Mencarelli, Joussef Hayek, Ilaria Meloni, Francesca Ariani, Francesca Mari, Alessandra Renieri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3585308?pdf=render

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