X chromosome

The X chromosome is ane o the twa sex-determinin chromosomes (allosomes) in mony organisms, includin mammals (the ither is the Y chromosome), an is foond in baith males an females. It is a pairt o the XY sex-determination system an X0 sex-determination system. The X chromosome wis cried for its unique properties bi aerlie researchers, that resultit in the namin o its coonterpairt Y chromosome, for the next letter in the alphabet, efter it wis diskivered later.^[5]

Human X chromosome
Human X chromosome (efter G-baundin).
X chromosome in human male karyogram.
Featurs
Lenth (bp)	156,040,895 bp (GRCh38)[1]
No. o genes	804 (CCDS)[2]
Teep	Allosome
Centromere poseetion	Submetacentric[3] (61.0 Mbp[4])
Complete gene leets
CCDS	Gene list
HGNC	Gene list
NCBI	Gene list
External map viewers
Ensembl	Chromosome X
Entrez	Chromosome X
NCBI	Chromosome X
UCSC	Chromosome X
Full DNA sequences
RefSeq	NC_000023 (FASTA)
GenBank	CM000685 (FASTA)