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January-March 2017 | Vol. 10 | Issue 1 | Page No 18-19 | |||
Marching Towards Perfection | |||
Aradhana Dwivedi | |||
Department of Medical Genetics, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | |||
Address for Correspondence Email: aradhanakd@gmail.com | |||
Abstract Monogenic causes of ribosomal dysfunction can confer a remarkable degree of specificity in terms of human disease phenotype. Box C/D small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved non-protein-coding RNAs involved in ribosome biogenesis. Biallelic mutations in the gene SNORD118, encoding the box C/D snoRNA U8, cause the cerebral microangiopathic leukoencephalopathy with calcifications and cysts (LCC), presenting at any age from early childhood to late adulthood. These mutations affect U8 expression, processing and protein-binding and thus implicate U8 as essential in cerebral vascular homeostasis. | |||
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