Level of purposeful hand function as a marker of clinical severity in Rett syndrome

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 817-823

  Downs, Jenny ^a   Bebbington, Ami ^a   Jacoby, Peter ^a   Williams, Anne Marie ^a   Ghosh, Soumya ^b   Kaufmann, Walter E ^c   Leonard, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN 2; MECP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL INDEPENDENCE MEASURE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOBILIZATION; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STEREOTYPY; VIDEORECORDING; AGE; DATA BASE; GENETICS; HAND; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGISTER; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAND; HUMANS; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REGISTRIES; RETT SYNDROME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIDEO RECORDING; WALKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955755675     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03636.x     Document Type: Article

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