| Chromosome 18 | |
|---|---|
 Human chromosome 18 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father. | |
 Chromosome 18 pair in human male karyogram. | |
| Features | |
| Length (bp) | 80,542,538 bp (CHM13) |
| No. of genes | 261 (CCDS)[1] |
| Type | Autosome |
| Centromere position | Submetacentric[2] (18.5 Mbp[3]) |
| Complete gene lists | |
| CCDS | Gene list |
| HGNC | Gene list |
| UniProt | Gene list |
| NCBI | Gene list |
| External map viewers | |
| Ensembl | Chromosome 18 |
| Entrez | Chromosome 18 |
| NCBI | Chromosome 18 |
| UCSC | Chromosome 18 |
| Full DNA sequences | |
| RefSeq | NC_000018 (FASTA) |
| GenBank | CM000680 (FASTA) |
Chromosome 18 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 18 spans about 80 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents about 2.5 percent 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.