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human chromosome 18

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Also known as chr18, Homo sapiens chromosome 18

human chromosome

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 )

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Research

5,178 papers

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
chromosome
Image
Human male karyotpe high resolution - Chromosome 18 cropped.png
Length
80373285
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Commons category
Human chromosome 18
found in taxon
Homo sapiens
short name
18
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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.