Recent findings have also associated MeCP2 with neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases (Ausió et al., 2014), in which astrocytes undergo atrophy and asthenia affecting their homeostatic and protective functions (Verkhratsky and Nedergaard, 2018). The gene discussed is MECP2; the disease is neurodegenerative disease.