Attesting to its important roles in post-transcriptional regulation, Unr/CSDE1 has been linked to diseases, including Diamond-Blackfan anemia, autism, and cancer progression (Fishbein et al., 2017; Guo et al., 2019; Horos and von Lindern, 2012; Sanders et al., 2012; Wurth et al., 2016; Xia et al., 2014). Here, CSDE1 is linked to Blackfan-Diamond anemia.