Rett syndrome
genetic brain disorder
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Summary
Rett syndrome is a designated intractable/rare disease[1]. It draws 10,586 Wikipedia views per month (designated intractable rare disease category, ranking #34 of 201).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Andreas Rett[3]
- Instance of: rare disease[4], class of disease[5]
- Named after: Andreas Rett[6]
- Subclass of: pervasive developmental disorder[7], neurological disorder[8], disease[9]
- Commons category: Rett syndrome[10]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1966[11]
- Symptoms and signs: cognitive dysfunction[12]
- Medical examination: phenotype[13], sequencing[14]
- External data available at URL: http://www.nanbyou.or.jp/entry/4366[15]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C75488[16]
- Health specialty: pediatrics[17], psychiatry[18], neurology[19]
- Genetic association: MECP2[20], CDKL5[21], FOXG1[22]
- Hashtag: RettSyndrome[23]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_1206[24], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1206[25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[26]
Why It Matters
Rett syndrome has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]