Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Acts upstream of or within eating behavior and receptor localization to non-motile cilium. Predicted to be located in ciliary membrane and cytoplasm. Predicted to be part of BBSome. Used to study Bardet-Biedl syndrome 18. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Bardet-Biedl syndrome 18. Orthologous to human BBIP1 (BBSome interacting protein 1).