Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources
Involved in several processes, including circadian sleep/wake cycle, non-REM sleep; long-term memory; and multicellular organismal iron ion homeostasis. Used to study restless legs syndrome. Is expressed in several structures, including central nervous system; early conceptus; genitourinary system; liver; and retina nuclear layer. Orthologous to human BTBD9 (BTB domain containing 9).