human chromosome 12
Sign in to saveAlso known as chr12, Homo sapiens chromosome 12
chromosome 12 in Homo sapiens
Key facts
- Length bp
- 133,324,548 bp, (CHM13)
- Number span no of genes
- 988 ( CCDS )
- Type
- Autosome
- Centromere position
- Submetacentric , (35.5 Mbp )
- Ccds
- Gene list
- Hgnc
- Gene list
- Uniprot
- Gene list
- Ncbi
- Gene list
- Ensembl
- Chromosome 12
- Entrez
- Chromosome 12
- Ucsc
- Chromosome 12
- Refseq
- NC_000012 ( FASTA )
- Genbank
- CM000674 ( FASTA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
4,491 papers- [Chromosome 12].Ryoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 2001
- Intranuclear arrangement of human chromosome 12 correlates to large-scale replication domains.Chromosoma · 2000
- Conserved synteny and gene order difference between human chromosome 12 and pig chromosome 5.Cytogenetics and cell genetics · 2001
- Inversions of chromosome 12 in human malignancies.Cancer genetics and cytogenetics · 1987
- Two type II keratin genes are localized on human chromosome 12.Human genetics · 1989
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chromosome
- Part of
- human genome
- Followed by
- human chromosome 13
- Follows
- human chromosome 11
- Image
- Human male karyotpe high resolution - Chromosome 12 cropped.png
- Length
- 133275309
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- Commons category
- Human chromosome 12
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- short name
- 12
- topic's main category
- Category:Genes on human chromosome 12
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 12” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.