human chromosome 8
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human chromosome
Key facts
- Length bp
- 146,259,331, (CHM13)
- Number span no of genes
- 646 ( CCDS )
- Type
- Autosome
- Centromere position
- Submetacentric , (45.2 Mbp )
- Ccds
- Gene list
- Hgnc
- Gene list
- Uniprot
- Gene list
- Ncbi
- Gene list
- Ensembl
- Chromosome 8
- Entrez
- Chromosome 8
- Ucsc
- Chromosome 8
- Refseq
- NC_000008 ( FASTA )
- Genbank
- CM000670 ( FASTA )
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
6,018 papers- Human chromosome 8.Journal of medical genetics · 1988
- The structure, function and evolution of a complete human chromosome 8.Nature · 2021
- Análisis de la presencia de trisomía 8 en las diferentes fases de leucemia mieloide crónica.Salud publica de Mexico · 2023
- New telomere to telomere assembly of human chromosome 8 reveals a previous underestimation of G-quadruplex forming sequences and inverted repeats.Gene · 2022
- [Chromosome 8].Ryoikibetsu shokogun shirizu · 2001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chromosome
- Part of
- human genome
- Followed by
- human chromosome 9
- Follows
- human chromosome 7
- Length
- 145138636
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- Commons category
- Human chromosome 8
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- short name
- 8
- topic's main category
- Category:Genes on human chromosome 8
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Chromosome 8 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 8 spans about 146 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 4.5 and 5.0% of the total DNA in cells.
About 8% of its genes are involved in brain development and function, and about 16% are involved in cancer. A unique feature of 8p is a region of about 15 megabases that appears to have a high mutation rate. This region shows a significant divergence between human and chimpanzee, suggesting that its high mutation rates have contributed to the evolution of the human brain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “human chromosome 8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.