Chromosome 16

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 genes795 (CCDS)[1]
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionMetacentric[2]
(36.8 Mbp[3])
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 16
EntrezChromosome 16
NCBIChromosome 16
UCSCChromosome 16
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000016 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000678 (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.

  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.