Key facts
- Length bp
- 66,210,255 bp, (CHM13)
- Number span no of genes
- 516 ( CCDS )
- Type
- Autosome
- Centromere position
- Metacentric , (28.1 Mbp )
- Ccds
- Gene list
- Hgnc
- Gene list
- Uniprot
- Gene list
- Ncbi
- Gene list
- Ensembl
- Chromosome 20
- Entrez
- Chromosome 20
- Ucsc
- Chromosome 20
- Refseq
- NC_000020 ( FASTA )
- Genbank
- CM000682 ( FASTA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
1,960 papers- [The human genome--chromosome 20].Casopis lekaru ceskych · 1995
- Waardenburg syndrome.Advances in oto-rhino-laryngology · 2000
- Evolutionary history of chromosome 20.Molecular biology and evolution · 2005
- The map of chromosome 20.Journal of medical genetics · 1988
- [Chromosome 20].Ryoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 2001
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chromosome
- Part of
- human genome
- Followed by
- human chromosome 21
- Follows
- human chromosome 19
- Image
- Human male karyotpe high resolution - Chromosome 20 cropped.png
- Length
- 64444167
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- Commons category
- Human chromosome 20
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- short name
- 20
- topic's main category
- Category:Genes on human chromosome 20
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Encyclopedic overview
Chromosome 20 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. Chromosome 20 spans around 66 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 2 and 2.5 percent of the total DNA in cells. Chromosome 20 was fully sequenced in 2001 and was reported to contain over 59 million base pairs. Since then, due to sequencing improvements and fixes, the length of chromosome 20 has been updated to just over 66 million base pairs.
Genes
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 20” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.