Chromosome 3 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 3 spans more than 201 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents about 6.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.
Genes
Number of genes The following are some of the gene count estimates of human chromosome 3. 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.
List of genes
The following is a partial list of genes on human chromosome 3. For complete list, see the link in the infobox on the right.
p-arm Partial list of the genes located on p-arm (short arm) of human chromosome 3:
q-arm Partial list of the genes located on q-arm (long arm) of human chromosome 3:
Diseases and disorders
The following diseases and disorders are some of those related to genes on chromosome 3:
Cytogenetic band
See also Coiled-coil domain-containing 37 (FLJ40083) RTP3 (gene)
References
External links
National Institutes of Health. "Chromosome 3". Genetics Home Reference. Archived from the original on 2010-04-08. Retrieved 2017-05-06. "Chromosome 3". Human Genome Project Information Archive 1990–2003. Retrieved 2017-05-06.