Enables cysteine transmembrane transporter activity. Involved in cysteine transmembrane transport; pigment metabolic process involved in pigmentation; and regulation of melanin biosynthetic process. Located in lysosome and melanosome. Part of late endosome. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Forensic Context
A review of massively parallel sequencing applications in human forensic genetics notes that the MFSD12 gene is associated with skin color prediction in Native American and East Asian populations [Carratto et al. DOI:10.1590/1678-4685-GMB-2022-0077].