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ReviewFaculty reviews2021

Rett syndrome: think outside the (skull) box.

Emilie Borloz, Laurent Villard, Jean-Christophe Roux

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Review in Faculty reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Rett Syndrome: Thinking Beyond Brain Borders.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Observational
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  8. Natural Course ofChildren (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
    Article
  9. Review
  10. State-of-the-art therapies for Rett syndrome.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2023
    Review
  11. Article
  12. Review
  13. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Emilie BorlozAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, MMG, U1251, Faculté de médecine Timone, 13385, Marseille, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6983-6461
Laurent VillardAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, MMG, U1251, Faculté de médecine Timone, 13385, Marseille, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6657-5008
Jean-Christophe RouxAix Marseille Univ, INSERM, MMG, U1251, Faculté de médecine Timone, 13385, Marseille, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9721-8844
Génétique Médicale & Génomique Fonctionelle · FRCentre de Génétique Médicale de Marseille

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rett syndrome (RTT) is a severe X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by neurodevelopmental regression between 6 and 18 months of life and associated with multi-system comorbidities. Caused mainly by pathogenic variants in the

Indexed as

comorbiditiesMecp2peripheral systemsRett syndrome

Identifiers

PMID34308425
PMCPMC8265562
OpenAlexW3173541672

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Registered trials

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