Galactokinase; phosphorylates alpha-D-galactose to alpha-D-galactose-1-phosphate in the first step of galactose catabolism; expression regulated by Gal4p; human homolog GALK2 complements yeast null mutant; GAL1 has a paralog, GAL3, that arose from the whole genome duplication [Source:SGD;Acc:S000000224]

Chromosome II: 279,021-280,607 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006936.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 318 orthologues and 2 paralogues.

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