DO YOU KNOW YOUR CHILD’S MECP2 MUTATION?

As an increasing number of pharmaceutical companies are looking to market treatments for people with Rett Syndrome in the UK, we are getting a number of enquiries about who exactly lives with Rett Syndrome in the UK.

Companies are especially interested to know whether most people with Rett Syndrome have had a genetic test for the MECP2 mutation, how many of those tested were positive and whether there is a known mutation

We’ve done some digging to find out what the answers to these questions currently are and thought it would be interesting to share that information with you below

The percentage of mutation splits