Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables protein homodimerization activity. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including detection of light stimulus involved in visual perception; photoreceptor cell outer segment organization; and protein complex oligomerization. Located in photoreceptor outer segment. Is expressed in eye; head; retina; and retina outer nuclear layer. Used to study partial central choroid dystrophy; patterned macular dystrophy 1; and retinitis pigmentosa 7. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Leber congenital amaurosis; eye degenerative disease (multiple); and fundus albipunctatus. Orthologous to human PRPH2 (peripherin 2).
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