Chromosome 17 (human)

Chromosome 17 (human)
Pair of human chromosome 17 (after G-banding). One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 17 pair in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)	83,257,441
No. of genes	2,432 2,653
Type	Autosome
Centromere position	Submetacentric
Identifiers
RefSeq	NC_000017
GenBank	CM000679

Chromosome 17 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 17 spans more than 83 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 2.5 and 3% 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 9%, with one estimate giving 2,432 genes, and the other estimate giving 2,653 genes.

Chromosome 17 contains the Homeobox B gene cluster.

The following are some of the genes and their corresponding Cytogenetic location on chromosome 17:

The following diseases are related to genes on chromosome 17: