Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables chromatin binding activity; damaged DNA binding activity; and guanine/thymine mispair binding activity. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including determination of adult lifespan; intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway in response to DNA damage; and somatic diversification of immunoglobulins. Located in chromatin. Part of MutSalpha complex. Is expressed in several structures, including brain; early conceptus; liver; lung; and oocyte. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Lynch syndrome; colorectal carcinoma; endometrial cancer; hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer type 5; and mismatch repair cancer syndrome. Orthologous to human MSH6 (mutS homolog 6).
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