Predicted to enable sphingolipid delta-4 desaturase activity. Predicted to be involved in ceramide biosynthetic process. Predicted to be located in membrane. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in hypomyelinating leukodystrophy 18. Is an ortholog of human DEGS1 (delta 4-desaturase, sphingolipid 1) and DEGS2 (delta 4-desaturase, sphingolipid 2).
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.