| Chromosome 16 | |
|---|---|
 Human chromosome 16 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father. | |
 Chromosome 16 pair in human male karyogram. | |
| Features | |
| Length (bp) | 96,330,374 bp (CHM13) |
| No. of genes | 795 (CCDS)[1] |
| Type | Autosome |
| Centromere position | Metacentric[2] (36.8 Mbp[3]) |
| Complete gene lists | |
| CCDS | Gene list |
| HGNC | Gene list |
| UniProt | Gene list |
| NCBI | Gene list |
| External map viewers | |
| Ensembl | Chromosome 16 |
| Entrez | Chromosome 16 |
| NCBI | Chromosome 16 |
| UCSC | Chromosome 16 |
| Full DNA sequences | |
| RefSeq | NC_000016 (FASTA) |
| GenBank | CM000678 (FASTA) |
Chromosome 16 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 16 spans about 90 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents just under 3% of the total DNA in cells.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
CCDSwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Tom Strachan; Andrew Read (2 April 2010). Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-136-84407-2.
- ^ Genome Decoration Page, NCBI. Ideogram data for Homo sapience (850 bphs, Assembly GRCh38.p3). Last update 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2017-04-26.