Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Involved in energy homeostasis. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including cellular response to cytokine stimulus; cellular response to lipopolysaccharide; and regulation of signal transduction. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in cholangiocarcinoma; head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; osteosarcoma; pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; and urinary bladder cancer. Orthologous to human MIR494 (microRNA 494).