Human chromosome 6 pair after G-banding. One is from mother, one is from father.
Chromosome 6 pair in human male karyogram.
Features
Length (bp)
172,126,628 bp (CHM13)
No. of genes
996 (CCDS)[1]
Type
Autosome
Centromere position
Submetacentric[2] (59.8 Mbp[3])
Complete gene lists
CCDS
Gene list
HGNC
Gene list
UniProt
Gene list
NCBI
Gene list
External map viewers
Ensembl
Chromosome 6
Entrez
Chromosome 6
NCBI
Chromosome 6
UCSC
Chromosome 6
Full DNA sequences
RefSeq
NC_000006 (FASTA)
GenBank
CM000668 (FASTA)
Chromosome 6 is one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in humans. People normally have two copies of this chromosome. Chromosome 6 spans more than 172 million base pairs (the building material of DNA) and represents between 5.5 and 6% of the total DNA in cells. It contains the major histocompatibility complex, which contains over 100 genes related to the immune response, and plays a vital role in organ transplantation.
^Cite error: The named reference CCDS was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Tom Strachan; Andrew Read (2 April 2010). Human Molecular Genetics. Garland Science. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-136-84407-2.
^Genome Decoration Page, NCBI. Ideogram data for Homo sapience (850 bphs, Assembly GRCh38.p3). Last update 2014-06-03. Retrieved 2017-04-26.
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