Chromosome 9 (human) | |
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Human chromosome 9 pair after G-banding.
One is from mother, one is from father. |
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Chromosome 9 pair in human male karyogram.
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Features | |
Length (bp) | 138,394,717 bp |
No. of genes | 2,262 1,940 |
Type | Autosome |
Centromere position | Submetacentric |
Identifiers | |
RefSeq | NC_000009 |
GenBank | CM000671 |
Chromosome 9 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome, as they normally do with all chromosomes. Chromosome 9 spans about 138 million base pairs of nucleic acids (the building blocks 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 14%, with one estimate giving 2,262 genes, and the other estimate giving 1,940 genes.
The following are some of the genes located on chromosome 9:
The following diseases are some of those related to genes on chromosome 9: