Chromosome 12
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Chromosome 12 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 12 spans about 133 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 4 and 4.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.
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Chromosome 12 | |
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Features | |
Length (bp) | 133,324,548 bp (CHM13) |
No. of genes | 988 (CCDS)[1] |
Type | Autosome |
Centromere position | Submetacentric[2] (35.5 Mbp[3]) |
Complete gene lists | |
CCDS | Gene list |
HGNC | Gene list |
UniProt | Gene list |
NCBI | Gene list |
External map viewers | |
Ensembl | Chromosome 12 |
Entrez | Chromosome 12 |
NCBI | Chromosome 12 |
UCSC | Chromosome 12 |
Full DNA sequences | |
RefSeq | NC_000012 (FASTA) |
GenBank | CM000674 (FASTA) |
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Chromosome 12 contains the Homeobox C gene cluster.