Chromosome 19

Chromosome 19 (human)
Human chromosome 19 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 19 pair in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)	58,617,616 bp
No. of genes	2,188 2,670
Type	Autosome
Centromere position	Metacentric (26.2 Mbp)
External map viewers
Ensembl	Chromosome 19
Entrez	Chromosome 19
NCBI	Chromosome 19
UCSC	Chromosome 19
Full DNA sequences
RefSeq	NC_000019 (FASTA)
GenBank	CM000681 (FASTA)

Chromosome 19 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 19 spans more than 58.6 million base pairs, the building material of DNA.

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 22%, with one estimate giving 2,188 genes, and the other estimate giving 2,670 genes. Using either estimate, chromosome 19 has the highest gene density of all the 23 chromosomes.

The following are some of the genes located on chromosome 19:

The following diseases are some of those related to genes on chromosome 19: