Rett syndrome
Rett's disorder , RTT (Abkürzung)

Most people with Rett syndrome live into middle age and beyond.

The likelihood of having another child with Rett syndrome is less than 1%.

The average life expectancy of a girl with Rett syndrome may be mid-40s.

No Rett syndrome risk factors have been identified, other than being female.

In 1966 he published the first description of Rett syndrome.

An infant with Rett syndrome usually has normal development for the first 6 - 18 months.

There is no known method for prevention of Rett syndrome.

Around 1 to 4 years of age, social and language skills deteriorate in girls with Rett syndrome.

Babies with Rett syndrome seem to grow and develop normally at first.

Usually, a child with Rett syndrome sits up properly but may not crawl.

Several types of mutations have been identified in people with Rett syndrome.

Rett syndrome is an almost entirely female based disorder which affects girls.

It's usually discovered in the first two years of life, and a child's diagnosis with Rett syndrome can feel overwhelming.

Known to occur mainly in girls, children with Rett syndrome begin to develop normally.

Exactly what this gene does, or how its mutation leads to Rett syndrome, isn't clear.

It turns out that this gene's mutations cause a lot more than Rett syndrome.

A. With Rett syndrome, it's helpful to the parents of these kids.

It has been proposed as a treatment for Rett syndrome, after favorable testing in an animal model.

In most cases of Rett syndrome, a little girl develops normally in early life.

When boys develop the Rett syndrome mutation, they die shortly after birth.

People with Rett syndrome also have mental retardation and scoliosis.

Rett syndrome is a rare, severe, "girls only" form of autism.

Rett syndrome also causes problems with muscles and coordination.

A girl with Rett syndrome may also have uncoordinated breathing and seizures.

Rett syndrome strikes mostly girls, who around the age of 3 start to lose their speech and movement faculties.

Rett's disorder.

Examples include autism, Rett's disorder, and Asperger's syndrome.

In DSM-IV-TR Rett's disorder is listed under the broad category of pervasive developmental disorders, together with the autism spectrum disorders and childhood disintegrative disorder.