Chromosome 10 (human)

Chromosome 10 (human)
Human chromosome 10 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 10 pair in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)	133,797,422 bp
Number of genes	2,174 1,899
Type	Autosome
Centromere position	Submetacentric
Identifiers
RefSeq	NC_000010
GenBank	CM000672

Chromosome 10 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 10 spans about 133 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 4 and 4.5 percent of the total DNA in cells.

Identifying genes on each chromosome is an active area of genetic research. Because researchers use different approaches to genome annotation their predictions of the number of genes on each chromosome varies. In January 2017, two estimates differed by 13%, with one estimate giving 2,174 genes, and the other estimate giving 1,899 genes.

The following are some of the genes located on chromosome 10:

The following diseases are related to genes on chromosome 10: