Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Involved in cognition; social behavior; and thalamus development. Acts upstream of or within chemical synaptic transmission and memory. Located in synapse. Is expressed in brain; future brain; olfactory epithelium; and spinal cord. Used to study attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in autistic disorder. Orthologous to human PTCHD1 (patched domain containing 1).