Chromosome 19

Chromosome 19
Human chromosome 19 pair after G-banding.
One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 19 pair
in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)61,707,364 bp
(CHM13)
No. of genes1,357 (CCDS)[1]
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionMetacentric[2]
(26.2 Mbp[3])
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 19
EntrezChromosome 19
NCBIChromosome 19
UCSCChromosome 19
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000019 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000681 (FASTA)

Chromosome 19 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 19 spans more than 61.7 million base pairs, the building material of DNA. It is considered the most gene-rich chromosome containing roughly 1,500 genes, despite accounting for only 2 percent of the human genome.[4][5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference CCDS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Tom Strachan; Andrew Read (2 April 2010). Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-136-84407-2.
  3. ^ Genome Decoration Page, NCBI. Ideogram data for Homo sapience (850 bphs, Assembly GRCh38.p3). Last update 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
  4. ^ Ucciferri, Charles (2004-03-31). "Gene-Rich Human Chromosome 19 Sequence Completed". DOE Joint Genome Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  5. ^ Sehgal, N.; Fritz, A. J.; Morris, K.; Torres, I.; Chen, Z.; Xu, J.; Berezney, R. (2014). "Gene Density and Chromosome Territory Shape". Chromosoma. 123 (5): 499–513. doi:10.1007/s00412-014-0480-y. PMC 5726871. PMID 25106753.