This gene may represent a processed pseudogene of DPH3, GeneID: 285381, because it lacks the exon/intron structure found in the functional gene. However, it does contain an intact open reading frame and it has not been established that the predicted protein is not translated. The NCBI RefSeq Project continues to treat this as a protein coding gene in agreement with Swiss-Prot. [provided by RefSeq, Jan 2014].