Involved in cellular response to vitamin D. Located in mitochondrion. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease axonal type 2C; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease axonal type 2K; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease recessive intermediate A; and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4A. Orthologous to human GDAP1 (ganglioside induced differentiation associated protein 1). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]