human chromosome 3

Also known as chr3, Homo sapiens chromosome 3, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3

human chromosome

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Within Vinony's link graph, human chromosome 3 is referenced by 958 other articles, and connects out to chromosome, centromeric region, gene and locus.

Vinony files it under Chromosomes (human), Genes on human chromosome 3 and Incomplete lists from August 2008.

Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Length bp: 201,105,948 bp, (CHM13)
Number span no of genes: 1,024 ( CCDS )
Type: Autosome
Centromere position: Metacentric , (90.9 Mbp )
Ccds: Gene list
Hgnc: Gene list
Uniprot: Gene list
Ncbi: Gene list
Ensembl: Chromosome 3
Entrez: Chromosome 3
Ucsc: Chromosome 3
Refseq: NC_000003 ( FASTA )
Genbank: CM000665 ( FASTA )

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Research

5,413 papers

Evolutionary plasticity and cancer breakpoints in human chromosome 3.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2008
Plasticity of human chromosome 3 during primate evolution.Genomics · 2004
Human chromosome 3 corrects mismatch repair deficiency and microsatellite instability and reduces N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine tolerance in colon tumor cells with homozygous hMLH1 mutation.Cancer research · 1994
[Mapping of human chromosome 3 and its application to human diseases].Tanpakushitsu kakusan koso. Protein, nucleic acid, enzyme · 1993
Human chromosome 3 and pig chromosome 13 show complete synteny conservation but extensive gene-order differences.Cytogenetics and cell genetics · 1999

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: chromosome
Part of: human genome
Followed by: human chromosome 4
Follows: human chromosome 2
Image: Human male karyotpe high resolution - Chromosome 3 cropped.png
Length: 198295559

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Commons category: Human chromosome 3
found in taxon: Homo sapiens
short name: 3
topic's main category: Category:Genes on human chromosome 3

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Encyclopedic overview

Chromosome 3 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 3 spans more than 201 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents about 6.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.

Genes

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 3” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.