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human chromosome 2
Sign in to saveAlso known as chr2, Homo sapiens chromosome 2, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 2
human chromosome
Key facts
- Length bp
- 242,696,752 bp, (CHM13)
- Number span no of genes
- 1,194 ( CCDS )
- Type
- Autosome
- Centromere position
- Submetacentric , (93.9 Mbp )
- Ccds
- Gene list
- Hgnc
- Gene list
- Uniprot
- Gene list
- Ncbi
- Gene list
- Ensembl
- Chromosome 2
- Entrez
- Chromosome 2
- Ucsc
- Chromosome 2
- Refseq
- NC_000002 ( FASTA )
- Genbank
- CM000664 ( FASTA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
4,462 papers- [Chromosome 2].Ryoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 2001
- A hamster-human subchromosomal hybrid cell panel for chromosome 2.Somatic cell and molecular genetics · 1993
- Normal human chromosome 2 induces cellular senescence in the human cervical carcinoma cell line SiHa.Genes, chromosomes & cancer · 1995
- Origin of human chromosome 2: an ancestral telomere-telomere fusion.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1991
- Human chromosome 2 carries a gene required for production of infectious human immunodeficiency virus type 1.Journal of virology · 2006
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chromosome
- Subclass of
- autosome
- Part of
- human genome
- Followed by
- human chromosome 3
- Follows
- human chromosome 1
- Image
- Human male karyotpe high resolution - Chromosome 2 cropped.png
- Length
- 242193529
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Human chromosome 2
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- short name
- 2
- topic's main category
- Category:Genes on human chromosome 2
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Fusion of ancestral chromosomes left distinctive remnants of telomeres, and a vestigial centromere Chromosome 2 is one of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 2 is the second-largest human chromosome, spanning more than 242 million base pairs and representing almost eight percent of the total DNA in human cells.
Chromosome 2 contains the HOXD homeobox gene cluster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.