RPL5 and Diamond-Blackfan anemia: To date eleven genes encoding ribosomal proteins have been found mutated in DBA patients, i.e. RPS19, RPS24, RPS17, RPL5, RPL11, RPS7, RPL35A, RPS26, RPS10, RPL26, and RPL15 (Boria et al., 2010; Draptchinskaia et al., 1999; Gazda et al., 2012; Landowski et al., 2013; Quarello et al., 2010).