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human chromosome 12

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Also 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

Wikidata facts

Instance of
chromosome
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
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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.