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Increasing evidence from human genetics, animal models, functional genomics, and transcriptomic studies indicates that BNC2 links nuclear regulatory mechanisms to tissue-specific developmental and disease phenotypes. In the nervous system, BNC2-positive neuronal populations and BNC2-derived circular RNAs have been implicated in energy-balance circuits and neuroinflammatory regulation. In the skeletal system, BNC2 contributes to osteochondral development, periosteal stem-cell activation, chromatin remodeling, fracture repair, and genetic susceptibility to adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. BNC2 variants have also been associated with congenital lower urinary tract obstruction, whereas its expression and regulatory landscape are closely related to germ-cell development, epithelial ovarian cancer susceptibility, pigmentation traits, fibrosis, and several tumor contexts. Mechanistically, BNC2-associated phenotypes appear to involve cysteine\u2013histidine zinc-finger-mediated transcriptional regulation, non-coding enhancer activity, epigenetic alterations, RNA-processing-associated nuclear functions, and chromatin-remodeling-dependent control of cell proliferation, differentiation, and stromal activation. This review integrates current evidence on the molecular architecture and regulatory functions of BNC2, critically discusses its context-dependent roles across development and disease, and highlights unresolved questions regarding isoform-specific activity, cell-type-specific regulation, downstream target networks, and clinical translation. 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