Al-Raqad syndrome (ARS) is a novel clinical entity, and is an autosomal recessive disorder with anomalies in multiple organs. Its most salient phenotypes comprise severe growth delay, neurological defects, cognitive impairment, skeletal and cardiac anomalies. Its genetic etiology can be attributed to homozygous loss-of-function alleles in the DCPS gene. The DCPS protein is the scavenger mRNA decapping enzyme which functions in the last step of the 3' end mRNA decay pathway.
Ahmed I, Buchert R, Zhou M, Jiao X, Mittal K, Sheikh TI, Scheller U, Vasli N, Rafiq MA, Brohi MQ, Mikhailov A, Ayaz M, Bhatti A, Sticht H, Nasr T, Carter MT, Uebe S, Reis A, Ayub M, John P, Kiledjian M, Vincent JB, Jamra RA
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Mutations in DCPS and EDC3 in autosomal recessive intellectual disability indicate a crucial role for mRNA decapping in neurodevelopment.
