This locus is inferred to be non-protein-coding based on the observations that a) there is no homology support for predicted open reading frames; and b) the location of the longer predicted open reading frame renders the transcript a candidate for nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) as the stop codon is >50 nucleotides upstream of the terminal splice site. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2009]. Sequence Note: The RefSeq transcript and protein were derived from genomic sequence to make the sequence consistent with the reference genome assembly. The genomic coordinates used for the transcript record were based on alignments.