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Will my Rett syndrome patient walk, talk, and use her hands?

2008· letter· en· W2036628479 on OpenAlexaff
Yuzhi Zhang, Berge A. Minassian

Bibliographic record

VenueNeurology · 2008
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicGenetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Canadian institutionsHospital for Sick Children
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRett syndromePsychologyAnxietyAutismMECP2Developmental psychologyDiseaseWakefulnessNeuroscienceMedicinePediatricsPsychiatryInternal medicineElectroencephalography

Abstract

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First recognized by Andreas Rett in 1966 and rediscovered in 1983,1 Rett syndrome (RS) is among the most common causes of mental retardation, affecting upwards of 1 in 10,000 girls. Extensive clinical characterization has revealed a distinctive clinical entity. Stereotypic almost constant hand-rubbing in wakefulness is its most recognizable symptom. Social anxiety akin to autism is another. The latter increases the former, and the girls appear as though they are, and perhaps they truly are, wringing their hands in anxiety, hence the use of the term hand-wringing. The disease begins in mid-infancy with decelerating head growth after a period of normal development. The neurologic regression starts between 6 and 36 months with developmental arrest, and loss of or reduction in hand use, speech, and communication skills, and social interest. Additional features include a typical pattern of disease progression with the regression reaching a plateau and not progressing further, in contradistinction to other neurodegenerative diseases, and autonomic abnormalities including irregular breathing and cold blue extremities.2 RS is caused by mutations in the X-linked MECP2 gene, which encodes the …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.016
Threshold uncertainty score0.027

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0160.012
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.187
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2008
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