The protein encoded by this gene shares similarity with Saccharomyces cerevisiae Rad52 , a protein important for DNA double-strand break repair and homologous recombination. This gene product was shown to bind single-stranded DNA ends , and mediate the DNA-DNA interaction necessary for the annealing of complementary DNA strands. It was also found to interact with DNA recombination protein RAD51 , which suggested its role in RAD51 related DNA recombination and repair. A pseudogene of this gene is present on chromosome 2. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. Additional alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene have been described , but their full-length nature is not known. [provided by RefSeq , Jul 2014] ,
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