Al-Raqad syndrome

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.