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human chromosome 14

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Also known as chr14, Homo sapiens chromosome 14

human chromosome

Key facts

Length bp
101,161,492 bp, (CHM13)
Number span no of genes
583 ( CCDS )
Type
Autosome
Centromere position
Acrocentric , (17.2 Mbp )
Ccds
Gene list
Hgnc
Gene list
Uniprot
Gene list
Ncbi
Gene list
Ensembl
Chromosome 14
Entrez
Chromosome 14
Ucsc
Chromosome 14
Refseq
NC_000014 ( FASTA )
Genbank
CM000676 ( FASTA )

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Research

4,840 papers

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
chromosome
Image
Human male karyotpe high resolution - Chromosome 14 cropped.png
Length
107043718
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Commons category
Human chromosome 14
found in taxon
Homo sapiens
short name
14
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Encyclopedic overview

Chromosome 14 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 14 spans about 107 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 3 and 3.5% of the total DNA in cells.

The centromere of chromosome 14 is positioned approximately at position 17.2 Mbp.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 14” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.