Predicted to enable N-acylsphingosine amidohydrolase activity. Predicted to be involved in fatty acid metabolic process and sphingolipid metabolic process. Predicted to be located in lysosome. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Farber lipogranulomatosis; sphingolipidosis; and spinal muscular atrophy with progressive myoclonic epilepsy. Is an ortholog of human ASAH1 (N-acylsphingosine amidohydrolase 1).
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.