Chromosome 7

Chromosome 7
Human chromosome 7 pair after G-banding.
One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 7 pair
in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)160,567,428 bp
(CHM13)
No. of genes862 (CCDS)[1]
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionSubmetacentric[2]
(60.1 Mbp[3])
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 7
EntrezChromosome 7
NCBIChromosome 7
UCSCChromosome 7
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000007 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000669 (FASTA)

Chromosome 7 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans, who normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 7 spans about 160 million[4] base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 5 and 5.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.

  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. ^ What is chromosome 7, "Genetics Home Reference" of U.S. National Library of Medicine. April 2008. [2014-05-14].