mir-53 encodes a microRNA, a small non-protein coding RNA; mir-53 is expressed constitutively throughout development; many of the known microRNAs are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of genes; the precise function of mir-53 is not known.
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.