Predicted to enable outward rectifier potassium channel activity and potassium ion leak channel activity. Predicted to be involved in potassium ion transmembrane transport and stabilization of membrane potential. Predicted to be located in membrane. Expressed in muscle cell and neurons. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Birk-Barel syndrome and primary pulmonary hypertension. Is an ortholog of human KCNK3 (potassium two pore domain channel subfamily K member 3) and KCNK9 (potassium two pore domain channel subfamily K member 9).
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.