Chromosome 17

Chromosome 17
Human chromosome 17 pair after G-banding.
One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 17 pair
in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)84,276,897 bp
(CHM13)
No. of genes1,124 (CCDS)[1]
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionSubmetacentric[2]
(25.1 Mbp[3])
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 17
EntrezChromosome 17
NCBIChromosome 17
UCSCChromosome 17
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000017 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000679 (FASTA)

Chromosome 17 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 17 spans more than 84 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 2.5 and 3% of the total DNA in cells.

Chromosome 17 contains the Homeobox B gene cluster.

  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.