Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables chromatin binding activity. Acts upstream of or within blastocyst formation; heart development; and placenta development. Located in kinetochore. Is expressed in 1st branchial arch; central nervous system; early conceptus; genitourinary system; and heart. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in extrahepatic bile duct adenocarcinoma; lung non-small cell carcinoma; lung small cell carcinoma; and renal cell carcinoma. Orthologous to human PBRM1 (polybromo 1).