Chromosome 17
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Chromosome 17 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 17 spans more than 84 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 2.5 and 3% of the total DNA in cells.
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Chromosome 17 | |
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Features | |
Length (bp) | 84,276,897 bp (CHM13) |
No. of genes | 1,124 (CCDS)[1] |
Type | Autosome |
Centromere position | Submetacentric[2] (25.1 Mbp[3]) |
Complete gene lists | |
CCDS | Gene list |
HGNC | Gene list |
UniProt | Gene list |
NCBI | Gene list |
External map viewers | |
Ensembl | Chromosome 17 |
Entrez | Chromosome 17 |
NCBI | Chromosome 17 |
UCSC | Chromosome 17 |
Full DNA sequences | |
RefSeq | NC_000017 (FASTA) |
GenBank | CM000679 (FASTA) |
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Chromosome 17 contains the Homeobox B gene cluster.