Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.4.0)
Enables alcohol-forming very long-chain fatty acyl-CoA reductase activity. Involved in wax biosynthetic process. Located in peroxisome. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctate type 4. Orthologous to human FAR1 (fatty acyl-CoA reductase 1).
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