Key facts
- Length bp
- 80,542,538 bp, (CHM13)
- Number span no of genes
- 261 ( CCDS )
- Type
- Autosome
- Centromere position
- Submetacentric , (18.5 Mbp )
- Ccds
- Gene list
- Hgnc
- Gene list
- Uniprot
- Gene list
- Ncbi
- Gene list
- Ensembl
- Chromosome 18
- Entrez
- Chromosome 18
- Ucsc
- Chromosome 18
- Refseq
- NC_000018 ( FASTA )
- Genbank
- CM000680 ( FASTA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
5,178 papers- Human Chromosome 18 and Acrocentrics: A Dangerous Liaison.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
- Genetic analysis of psychiatric disorders associated with human chromosome 18.Clinical and investigative medicine. Medecine clinique et experimentale · 2003
- DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 18.Nature · 2005
- Chromosome 18 suppresses tumorigenic properties of human prostate cancer cells.Genes, chromosomes & cancer · 2006
- A radiation hybrid map of human chromosome 18.Cytogenetics and cell genetics · 1994
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chromosome
- Part of
- human genome
- Followed by
- human chromosome 19
- Follows
- human chromosome 17
- Image
- Human male karyotpe high resolution - Chromosome 18 cropped.png
- Length
- 80373285
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Human chromosome 18
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- short name
- 18
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Chromosome 18 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 18 spans about 80 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents about 2.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.
Genes
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 18” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.