Primary Identifier | MGI:1923993 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
Chromosome | 10 | NCBI Gene Number | 76743 |
Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Predicted to enable gap junction channel activity. Acts upstream of or within cell morphogenesis; lens development in camera-type eye; and organ growth. Predicted to be part of connexin complex. Is expressed in lens; lens epithelium; lens equatorial epithelium; lens vesicle; and retina. Orthologous to human GJE1 (gap junction protein epsilon 1). PHENOTYPE: Mice with a mutation in this gene have small eyes. Eye/lens development arrests at the lens vesicle stage, and no primary lens fibers form. [provided by MGI curators] |