Gene therapy for neurological disorders: progress and prospects

BE Deverman, BM Ravina, KS Bankiewicz… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors are a rapidly emerging gene therapy platform for the
treatment of neurological diseases. In preclinical studies, transgenes encoding therapeutic …

Rett syndrome: insights into genetic, molecular and circuit mechanisms

JPK Ip, N Mellios, M Sur - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurological disorder caused by mutations in the gene
encoding methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2). Almost two decades of research into RTT …

Synaptic dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders associated with autism and intellectual disabilities

HY Zoghbi, MF Bear - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives …, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The discovery of the genetic causes of syndromic autism spectrum disorders and intellectual
disabilities has greatly informed our understanding of the molecular pathways critical for …

Rett syndrome: a complex disorder with simple roots

MJ Lyst, A Bird - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurological disorder caused by mutations in the X-linked
gene MECP2 (methyl-CpG-binding protein 2). Two decades of research have fostered the …

Rett syndrome

WA Gold, AK Percy, JL Neul, SR Cobb… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe, progressive, neurodevelopmental disorder, which affects
predominantly females. In most cases, RTT is associated with pathogenic variants in …

[HTML][HTML] A model for neural development and treatment of Rett syndrome using human induced pluripotent stem cells

MCN Marchetto, C Carromeu, A Acab, D Yu, GW Yeo… - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are complex neurodevelopmental diseases in which
different combinations of genetic mutations may contribute to the phenotype. Using Rett …

Lessons learned from studying syndromic autism spectrum disorders

Y Sztainberg, HY Zoghbi - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Syndromic autism spectrum disorders represent a group of childhood neurological
conditions, typically associated with chromosomal abnormalities or mutations in a single …

MeCP2-regulated miRNAs control early human neurogenesis through differential effects on ERK and AKT signaling

N Mellios, DA Feldman, SD Sheridan, JPK Ip… - Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
Rett syndrome (RTT) is an X-linked, neurodevelopmental disorder caused primarily by
mutations in the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene, which encodes a …

Copy number variation in human health, disease, and evolution

F Zhang, W Gu, ME Hurles… - Annual review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Copy number variation (CNV) is a source of genetic diversity in humans. Numerous CNVs
are being identified with various genome analysis platforms, including array comparative …

Structural variation in the human genome and its role in disease

P Stankiewicz, JR Lupski - Annual review of medicine, 2010 - annualreviews.org
During the last quarter of the twentieth century, our knowledge about human genetic
variation was limited mainly to the heterochromatin polymorphisms, large enough to be …