| Primary Identifier | MGI:102492 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
| Chromosome | MT | NCBI Gene Number | 17725 |
| Mgi Type | rRNA gene |
| description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Predicted to be a structural constituent of ribosome. Predicted to act upstream of or within ribosomal large subunit assembly and translation. Predicted to be part of mitochondrial large ribosomal subunit. Is expressed in future forebrain; future prosencephalon; heart; and prosencephalon. Orthologous to human MT-RNR2 (mitochondrially encoded 16S rRNA). PHENOTYPE: Mice homoplastic for this allele exhibit fetal and neonatal lethality, myopathy and cardiomyopathy with abnormal mitochondria. [provided by MGI curators] |