Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Predicted to enable histone reader activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including DNA replication checkpoint signaling; positive regulation of transcription initiation by RNA polymerase II; and protein localization to site of double-strand break. Predicted to act upstream of or within DNA repair. Located in chromosome. Is expressed in cerebral cortex ventricular layer; diencephalon lateral wall ventricular layer; midbrain ventricular layer; olfactory lobe; and telencephalon ventricular layer. Orthologous to human MDC1 (mediator of DNA damage checkpoint 1).