Bowen–Conradi syndrome

Bowen–Conradi syndrome
Other names: BCS[1] or BWCNS[2]
EMG1 in Bowen-Conradi syndrome

Bowen–Conradi syndrome is a disease in humans that can affect children.[2] The disease is due to an autosomal recessive abnormality of the EMG1 gene, which plays a role in small ribosomal subunit (SSU) assembly.[1][3] The preponderance of diagnoses has been in North American Hutterite children, but BWCNS can affect other population groups.[2][4]

BWCNS is a ribosomopathy.[1][5] A D86G mutation of EMG1 destroys an EcoRV restriction endonuclease site in the most highly conserved region of the protein.[3]

Skeletal dysmorphology is seen[2][4] and severe prenatal and postnatal growth failure usually leads to death by one year of age.[6]

References

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  6. Armistead J, Patel N, Wu X, et al. (2015). "Growth arrest in the ribosomopathy, Bowen-Conradi syndrome, is due to dramatically reduced cell proliferation and a defect in mitotic progression". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1852 (5): 1029–37. doi:10.1016/j.bbadis.2015.02.007. PMID 25708872.