Definition:

Alopecia neurological defects and endocrinopathy syndrome (ANE syndrome) is an autosomal recessive disease that is clinically heterogeneous. ANE syndrome patients display multiple signs including a varied amount of hair loss, mental retardation, progressive loss of motor ability beginning in the second decade of life, hypogonadism, central adrenal insufficiency, short stature, microcephaly, and several other skeletal and skin abnormalities. The syndrome is caused by decreased expression of the nucleolar protein RBM28, known to be required for biogenesis of the 60S subunit of the ribosome.