Chromosome 18 | |
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![]() Human chromosome 18 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father. | |
![]() Chromosome 18 pair in human male karyogram. | |
Features | |
Length (bp) | 80,542,538 bp (CHM13) |
No. of genes | 261 (CCDS)[1] |
Type | Autosome |
Centromere position | Submetacentric[2] (18.5 Mbp[3]) |
Complete gene lists | |
CCDS | Gene list |
HGNC | Gene list |
UniProt | Gene list |
NCBI | Gene list |
External map viewers | |
Ensembl | Chromosome 18 |
Entrez | Chromosome 18 |
NCBI | Chromosome 18 |
UCSC | Chromosome 18 |
Full DNA sequences | |
RefSeq | NC_000018 (FASTA) |
GenBank | CM000680 (FASTA) |
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.
CCDS
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).