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.
Genes
Number of genes The following are some of the gene count estimates of human chromosome 17. 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). The most conservative estimate, from CCDS, 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 17. For complete list, see the link in the infobox on the right.
The following are some of the genes and their corresponding Cytogenetic location on chromosome 17:
p-arm
q-arm
Diseases and disorders
The following diseases are related to genes on chromosome 17:
Cytogenetic band
References
Gilbert F (1998). "Disease genes and chromosomes: disease maps of the human genome. Chromosome 17". Genet Test. 2 (4): 357–81. doi:10.1089/gte.1998.2.357. PMID 10464617. Gene Card Website https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=SCN4A
External links
National Institutes of Health. "Chromosome 17". Genetics Home Reference. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. Retrieved 2017-05-06. "Chromosome 17". Human Genome Project Information Archive 1990–2003. Retrieved 2017-05-06.