Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Acts upstream of or within camera-type eye development; embryonic body morphogenesis; and positive regulation of cell population proliferation. Located in nucleus. Is expressed in several structures, including branchial arch; central nervous system; embryo mesenchyme; limb; and sensory organ. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in coloboma and syndromic microphthalmia 14. Orthologous to human MAB21L2 (mab-21 like 2).