Inferred by orthology to human genes with DO annotation (HGNC:4116)
Disease_relevance
Mutations in human GALE (UDP-galactose-4-prime-epimerase) are implicated in the autosomal recessive disorder, type III galactosemia; GALE participates in the galactose metabolism pathway, catalyzing the interconversion of UDP-galactose (UDP-gal) and UDP-glucose (UDP-glc) and in some species, including humans, also the interconversion of UDP-N-acetylgalactosamine (UDP-galNAc) and UDP-N-acetylglucosamine (UDP-glcNAc; one of the symptoms of galactosemia is intolerance to a galactose-rich diet, attributed to the accumulation of toxic galactose metabolism intermediates
Map position created from combination of previous interpolated map position (based on known location of sequence) and allele information. Therefore this is not a genetic map position based on recombination frequencies or genetic experiments. This was done on advice of the CGC.