Predicted to enable fatty acid binding activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid transport. Predicted to be located in cytosol and nucleus. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including Alzheimer's disease; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1G; Down syndrome; and artery disease (multiple). Is an ortholog of several human genes including FABP3 (fatty acid binding protein 3); FABP4 (fatty acid binding protein 4); and FABP7 (fatty acid binding protein 7).
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.