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Conversely, duplication or triplication of Xq28 causes an equally wide-ranging progressive neurological disorder,\n                    <jats:italic>MECP2<\/jats:italic>\n                    duplication syndrome, whose features overlap somewhat with RTT. To understand which MeCP2 functions cause toxicity in the duplication syndrome, we generated mouse models expressing endogenous\n                    <jats:italic>Mecp2<\/jats:italic>\n                    along with a RTT-causing mutation in either the methyl-CpG binding domain (MBD) or the transcriptional repression domain (TRD). We determined that both the MBD and TRD must function for doubling MeCP2 to be toxic. Mutating the MBD reproduces the null phenotype and expressing the TRD mutant produces milder RTT phenotypes, yet both mutations are harmless when expressed with endogenous\n                    <jats:italic>Mecp2<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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