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Matt Prue Stephanie Cooper Hart Trend BCA Marketing, BSc Statistics and Applied Statistics, PhD BSc (Hons) MSc PhD BSc PhD Manager, Biostatistics

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Shakara Yael Bep Liddelow-Hunt Perry Uink BPhil(Hons) BPsych (Hons) MPsych (Clin) PhD BPsych(Hons.), MAppPsy(Clinical), PhD Research Assistant; PhD

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We know that place, location, and geography can all influence health, wellbeing, and disease, and thus are important factors in policy development and service planning.

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Steve Sarah Zubrick Johnson FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD BA, PostGradDip; PhD Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow Senior Research Fellow 08 6319 1409

We hypothesised that MECP2 mutations occur predominantly on the male derived X chromosome.

We wanted to describe the range and variability in the expression of symptoms in girls and women with Rett syndrome.

We compared the symptoms and genetic characteristics of girls with Rett syndrome and both with and without initial diagnosis of autism.

We described the occurrence of scoliosis in Rett syndrome, how it develops and how it is influenced by the individual's age, mutation type, and walking ability.

Twenty-five families of girls who underwent a spinal fusion between 2006-2012 were interviewed to explore the course of their daughter's recovery.