Chromosome 18

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.

Chromosome 18
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 genes261 (CCDS)
TypeAutosome
Centromere positionSubmetacentric
(18.5 Mbp)
Complete gene lists
CCDSGene list
HGNCGene list
UniProtGene list
NCBIGene list
External map viewers
EnsemblChromosome 18
EntrezChromosome 18
NCBIChromosome 18
UCSCChromosome 18
Full DNA sequences
RefSeqNC_000018 (FASTA)
GenBankCM000680 (FASTA)
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