Elongase; involved in fatty acid and sphingolipid biosynthesis; synthesizes very long chain 20-26-carbon fatty acids from C18-CoA primers; involved in regulation of sphingolipid biosynthesis; lethality of the elo2 elo3 double null mutation is functionally complemented by human ELOVL1 and weakly complemented by human ELOVL3 or ELOV7 [Source:SGD;Acc:S000004364]

Chromosome XII: 867,354-868,391 forward strand.

R64-1-1:BK006945.2

This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant), 376 orthologues, 2 paralogues and is a member of 2 Ensembl protein families.

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