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. Chromosome 12 contains the Homeobox C gene cluster.
Genes
Number of genes The following are some of the gene count estimates of human chromosome 12. Because researchers use different approaches to genome annotation their predictions of the number of genes on each chromosome varies (for technical details, see gene prediction). Among various projects, the collaborative consensus coding sequence project (CCDS) takes an extremely conservative strategy. So CCDS's gene number prediction represents a lower bound on the total number of human protein-coding genes.
Gene list
The following is a partial list of genes on human chromosome 12. For complete list, see the link in the infobox on the right.
Diseases and disorders The following diseases are some of those related to genes on chromosome 12:
Cytogenetic band
References
External links
National Institutes of Health. "Chromosome 12". Genetics Home Reference. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2017-05-06. "Chromosome 12". Human Genome Project Information Archive 1990–2003. Retrieved 2017-05-06.