This locus represents naturally occurring read-through transcription between the neighboring C1q and tumor necrosis factor related protein 3 (C1QTNF3) and alpha-methylacyl-CoA racemase (AMACR) genes on chromosome 5. The read-through transcript is a candidate for nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), and is thus not likely to produce a protein product. [provided by RefSeq, Mar 2011]